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can defeat the proposal The F.O. how recognize that their former Objections longer hold good an
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22.7.26.
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PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.
(Sent 3.0 p.m. 23rd July, 1926.)
Secret. Canton negotiations, Following is for your
guidance after discussion with Foreign Office.
568
If Canton Government as part of general friendly
settlement were to ask for loan of officers from Hong
Kong as technical assistants you could give any such
request friendly consideration. Of course no military
instructors could be allowed and it would have to be
clear that only civil officials were to be lent and that
to be
they were not/employed on any work subsidiary to military
purposes. You should not however yourself put forward
any proposal of this kind. It will be necessary for any
such proposal to be carefully examined here in the light
of possible international obligations and difficulties
and should one therefore be made to you I request that
you will refer it home at once.
As to railway schemes we have considered the
four projects mentioned in the first enclosure of your
despatch of the 26th March and I have supported the
request contained in your despatch of the 20th March
that the loop-line should be financed from Boxer
Indemnity Funds, You cannot however count on this and
if it were found in course of negotiations that loan
either for this or for Fan-ling-Bias Bay railway would
be suitable, neither I nor the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would raise any objection, provided of course that the conditions contained in my telegram of
the 26th March were observed. As regards the ather
projects I would invite your attention to the above mentioned telegram which indicated the objections (on
the score of the consortium agreement) to which any
railway
drafted might go,
with any
that
minor amendmento
may
x
be
auffented by the fo.
22.7.26
8.1.6.
F.O. commer subject to allcations shown.
They
do not want the Sefinitely
commitice to approval of
處
Ioan of
HK
offices in case complications may
In the meantime.
We have aly at 60
Juggerlim put
Palentersuck
23-726 in a warning that the Indemnly
Durgation will probable