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adoption, it would have to be dictated by the
Central Government.
The amount which they and
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their fellow-countrymen in Kuangtung could raise is
put at twenty million dollars, and I am informed
that the hongkong & Shanghai Bank's other commd t-
ments would not debar it from receiving subscrip-
tions.
On receipt of your telegram in reply, I re-
turned to Canton and placed myself in commmanica-
tion with the Tutu. He at once instructed kr.
Li lisin-ling, an officer of the Ministry of F1.
nance,
sent down from Peking to enquire into the
local financial situation, to see me and to show ne
the draft agreement entered into with the british
engineer, originally referred to in the newspapers,
who turned out to be a MT. John Wilkie of the long-
kong firm Macdonald & Co., engineers and contrac-
tors. It was in effect a repetition of the propo-
sal laid before, and rejected by, Mr. Killier,
did not contain any provision as to control.
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