CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 606

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the Japanese, in the hopes that having created an impasse",

they might drive us to admit them to participation in the

agreement. If this view were correct it might be necessary

to find a solution in the admission of Japanese as well

as French capital, coupled however with a stipulation

that the participation be based upon the proportions

of the loan which each nation could iprue in London,

Prie Paris and Tokic respectively.

Contracts for the

Bection work alluded to above would be on three thirds

account.

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In a subsequent telegram Wr. Fraser informed me

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that Mr. Hillier and he concurred in thinking that if

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94 firm which had been proposed by the Viceroy himself,

on condition that he accepted the main terms of the draft

agreement submitted to him on June 16, he would place

himself in an anomalous position should he refuse such a

favourable offer. The Japanese could not hope unaided to

offer him even as good terms, >

and such a refusal would

amount to a public avowal of preference for the Japanese

and of personal antagenism to the French.

Kr. Fraser's

experience

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