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by the action of the German Consul at Hankow reported

in my telegram No. 118 of June 22, and the assertion to the

Tactal of German prior rights to a loan on the score of

proposals made in 1905. The Taotad seems to have put him

off, and I have not at present heard anything further on

the subject, but the possibility of German competition

should be borne in mind.

M. Casenave's further sugestion that the name of

the French should be eliminated from the Hupel Agreement

on condition that we should submit to similar effacement

in case of the loan which the Viceroy at Canton proposes

to raise for the construction of railways in the province

of Kuangtung seems to me open to obvious objections. The

Hupei section of the railway will be a purely commercial

undertaking, while the Canton end can scarcely fail to

have a political interest which, in view of our position

at Hongkong and our connection with the Canton-Kowloon

railway, we can scarcely allow the French to monopolise

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