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Decode.
Sir M. Lampson (Nanking via Peking)
June 26th 1929.
D.
1.5 p.m.
June 26th 1929.
9.00 a.m.
June 26th 1929.
No.114.
R.
(R).
8
United States Consul enquired today whether our proposed Boxer indemnity arrangements contained any provision for preferential treatment, his reason being that Minister of Railways had assured him that they did not (this in connexion with his hopes for floating a 150,000,000 dollar loan in America for fresh railway construction).
2. I told him I could not say: terms of
proposed arrangement were now being decided upon
by His Majesty's Goverment.
3. Consul made it clear that he regarded some such preferential provision as perfectly natural and proper end that it was his doubt of Minister of Railways' statement which had prompted his enquiry.
Addressed to Foreign Office No.114, repeated
to Peking.