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far as known to us are given in the attached statement which has been put together on the papere which we have on our files. The actual text of the agreement has nevEZ
reached ust but I believe timt Kesara, katheson have a
copy and only yesterday, just prior to the receipt of your letter, I had a conversation with Sir Charles Addis, Kanager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, who undertook to get them to take the matter up and give the true version of the scope of the concession.
The snake at the bottom of all the trouble is
clearly one Stevem, a pestilential fellow who is American Representative on the Consortium in china,
It was be who raked up the whole story when he was down in Canton last year, gave it every ounce of anti-British bins that he soulú, and has now evidently passed it on to Deway to be served up to the public.
To turn to the actual article, I vill make mush points as strike me, misbering them as I go to tally with the marginal numbers I have pensilled in on the
article itself.
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