CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905 — Page 177

"H.Kong

ALL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE

GROWN ADENTS FOR COLONIES,

THE ABOVE RERENCE AND THE

DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.

TELIADO."CROWN, DONDON”

CONFIDENTIAL

PRINTED FOR USE (

EASTERN,

No.88 COLONIAL OFFIC

C. O.

33952

IREST

REC 21 SEF 05

WHITEHALL CARDENS,

Hong

Kon" - 100.000 Loan

173

LONDON, S. W.

20th September/

190 5

CA

Sir,

33085

C

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

X your letter of the 16th of September Confidential and

to report that in accordance with the suggestion therein

made I have seen Mr Townsend of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and have arranged with him for the payment of £400,000 in connection with the Loan made by the Harkow branch of the Bank to the Viceroy of Tuchang.

2. Mr Townsend was not aware of the arrangements entered into between the Goverrer, of Hong Kong and the Viceroy but he had surmised that some one was behind the Viceroy as the latter would not be in a position to arrange for such an advance without assistance. All Mr

Townsend knew was that he had been asked to make a pay- ment of a specified number of dollars in New York and that he had done so and that he had been asked to adjust the payment as with the Shanghai branch of the Bank. He had also heard that German agents were seeking concessions of the Viceroy and were offering him loans ... of money

8.

Upon my explaining the actual arrangements

which

Under Secretary of State

&C &c C

Colonial Office

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