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of eontract. It is hari to offer useful comment on this without the text of the agreement before us, but I see from one of our papere that Cassel talks of prospecting in only fixe of the districts specified. But after all it is obvious that no one is going to BĂnit good money in China in its present state of tar¬sil unlesu
it is made worth his while. The Americans themselves
would be the last people to de so, it has of course
absolutely no cannection with the Canton-Hankow railmy project or the linking up of that line with the Hongkongm Canten sailway. It shows how jwundleed is the American
vier that such a suggestion should be seriously made.
4. Thrilling of Avantung by Jengkets. The same point of view is shown by the remarks under this bonding. Bongker.
is obviously vitally interested in the development of
South China generally and of Kwangtung in particular. But
it is a matter of common knowledge that in the absence of any good source of lesai soxă supply, the Colony (and the Province of Kwangtung too for that matter) have to obtain their supplies from elsewhere, I believe actually from the North, I believe I am right in saying that it has to come
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