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CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All AI Reviewed

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not fail to have a prejudicial effect upon investors in Chinese securities, which, if maintained, might entirely preclude the issue of the present loan.

H.E. T'ANG SHAO-YI stated that this cause of uneasiness would no longer exist as the authority to issue the Bonds was now forthcoming and would shortly be officially communicated to the British Legation; he had no doubt the matter would be settled this week.

In conclusion, and referring especially to the negotiations now proceeding for the Tientsin Yangtze Railway, His Excellency observed that the Chinese Government was convinced that Railway construction by Boards of Commissioners was not advisable, that experience had shown it to be fraught with serious difficulties, and that any negotiations to be successful, must abandon this system. The Government would rather pay compensation to cancel the preliminary agreement than conclude it with this condition attached.

The meeting then adjourned.

(Signed)

J.O.P. Bland

23.X.06.

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It appears that the input text is heavily distorted and contains numerous OCR errors. I will attempt to correct the text while following the provided guidelines. The initial part of the text seems to be unintelligible due to severe OCR errors. I will focus on the latter part, which appears to be a meeting record or a diplomatic correspondence. # Meeting Record The following text is a reconstructed version of the meeting record: not fail to have a prejudicial effect upon investors in Chinese securities, which, if maintained, might entirely preclude the issue of the present loan. H.E. T'ANG SHAO-YI stated that this cause of uneasiness would no longer exist as the authority to issue the Bonds was now forthcoming and would shortly be officially communicated to the British Legation; he had no doubt the matter would be settled this week. In conclusion, and referring especially to the negotiations now proceeding for the Tientsin Yangtze Railway, His Excellency observed that the Chinese Government was convinced that Railway construction by Boards of Commissioners was not advisable, that experience had shown it to be fraught with serious difficulties, and that any negotiations to be successful, must abandon this system. The Government would rather pay compensation to cancel the preliminary agreement than conclude it with this condition attached. The meeting then adjourned. (Signed) J.O.P. Bland 23.X.06. I have corrected minor spelling errors, removed extra spaces, and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs. The initial part of the text remains uncorrected due to its severe distortion.
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not fail to have a prejudicial effect upon investors in Chinese securities, which, if maintained, might entirely preclude the issue of the present loan.

H.E. T'ANG SHAO-YI stated that this cause of uneasiness would no longer exist as the authority to issue the Bonds was now forthcoming and would shortly be offitally communi- cated to the British Legation he had no doubt the matter would be settled this week.

In conclusion, and referring especially to the negotiations now proceeding for the Tientsin Yangtee Railway, His Excellency observed that the Chinese ovemment was convinced that Railway construction by Boards of Commission- ers was not advisable, that experience had shown it to be fraught with serious difficulties, and that any negotiations to be successful, must abandon this system. The Government would rather pay compensation to cancel the preliminary agreement than conclude it with this condition attached.

The meeting then adjourned.

(Signed)

J.0.P. Bland

23.X. 06.

KATSWOL

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