Encl. in P/L desɔ. No.12 to Feking from C.C. S'hai. of 11/1/1936.
No.2.
office of H.M. Trade Commissioner à
Commercial Secretary,
Shell House,
24-32, Queen's Road,
HONGKONG.
January 3rd, 1936.
Dear George,
You may remember that you asked Pelham last May
whether the Green Island Cement Company could have supplied
the cement for the Canton-Hankow railway, the contract for
which want to Indo-China; see your letter No.46 (2/130/1935)
of May 4, 1935, and Pelham's telegraphic reply.
In the course of a discussion yesterday with the
Secretary of the Green Island Cement Company about the rea-
trictions on imports of cement into south China I asked
whether Indo-China suppliers were similarly obstructed, and
he brought up the question of the railway contract, in ful-
filment of which consignments are still passing through
Hong rong I asked whether he had had an opportunity to
tender, and he said that he had, but that his price had been
higher than the price for Indo-China cement and that it would
not have paid his company to reduce their quotation further.
The price mentioned in Pelham's telegram to you
(HK. $4.10) is lower than that given in your letter to him
($4.70) as being the price of Indo-China cement, so that,
unless your figure was in Shanghai or canton dollars, one
or other of the figures is wrong, and I thought it might be
worth while to report what I was told yesterday.
Yours sincerely,
(800) R. H. SCOTT.
A.H. George, Esq.,
Acting Commercial Counsellor,
SHANGHAI.
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