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Chinese firm insist that the Agreement was entirely a "bogus" one and that no loan was made and that it was entered into merely to extricate them from difficulties with their own Authorities and to obtain the protection of a foreign flag.

At the interview yesterday the matter was fully discussed: threats, actual and veiled, were, I understand, made use of and the Viceroy consented that the books of the then-Yen-Tai firm should be investigated.

After His Excellency the Viceroy had taken his leave of the Italian Consul, he called by appointment on me - His Excellency having been good enough, in reply to a request for an interview, to say that he was coming on to this Concession and would save me the trouble of going into the City.

The business I had to transact with His Excellency was in connection with the promulgation of the Imperial "dicta". His Excellency, however, spoke of the above case, asking me what I thought of it and saying that he had ordered the books to be examined. I replied that I could express no opinion.

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Chinese firm insist that the Agreement was entirely a "bogus" one and that no loan was made and that it was entered into merely to extricate them from difficulties with their own Authorities and to obtain the protection of a foreign flag. At the interview yesterday the matter was fully discussed: threats, actual and veiled, were, I understand, made use of and the Viceroy consented that the books of the then-Yen-Tai firm should be investigated. After His Excellency the Viceroy had taken his leave of the Italian Consul, he called by appointment on me - His Excellency having been good enough, in reply to a request for an interview, to say that he was coming on to this Concession and would save me the trouble of going into the City. The business I had to transact with His Excellency was in connection with the promulgation of the Imperial "dicta". His Excellency, however, spoke of the above case, asking me what I thought of it and saying that he had ordered the books to be examined. I replied that I could express no opinion.
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L Chinese firm insist that the Agreement was en- tirely a bogus" one and that no loan was made and that it was entered into merely to extricate 258 them from difficulties with their own Authorities and to obtain the protection of a foreign flag. At the interview yesterday the matter was fully discussed: threats, actual and veiled, were, I understand, made use of and the Viceroy con- sentod that the books of the then-Yen-Tai fimm should be investigated. After His Excellency the Viceroy had taken his leave of the Italian Consul, he called by appoint- e a ment un me - His Excellency having been good enough, in reply to a request for an interview, to say that he was coming on to this Concession and would save me the trouble of going into the City. The business I had to transact with His Excellency was in connection with the promulgation of the Imperial "dicta. His Excellency, however, spuko of the above case, asking me what I thought S. of it and saying that he had ordered the books to be examined. I replied that I could express no opinion
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Chinese firm insist that the Agreement was en-

tirely a bogus" one and that no loan was made

and that it was entered into merely to extricate

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them from difficulties with their own Authorities

and to obtain the protection of a foreign flag.

At the interview yesterday the matter was

fully discussed: threats, actual and veiled, were,

I understand, made use of and the Viceroy con-

sentod that the books of the then-Yen-Tai fimm

should be investigated.

After His Excellency the Viceroy had taken his

leave of the Italian Consul, he called by appoint-

e

a

ment un me

-

His Excellency having been good enough,

in reply to a request for an interview, to say that

he was coming on to this Concession and would save

me the trouble of going into the City.

The business I had to transact with His

Excellency was in connection with the promulgation

of the Imperial "dicta. His Excellency, however,

spuko of the above case, asking me what I thought

S.

of it and saying that he had ordered the books to be

examined. I replied that I could express no

opinion

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