CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 651

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REG 20 MAR 09

Telegram from Sir J. Jordan, Peking, No.58, dated

March 10th, 1909.

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Canton-Hankow Railway Loan. My immediately pre-

ceding telegram.

In the course of a conversation to-day Liang Tun Yen said

that he very much regretted the turn things had taken,

and would do all he could to make amends, but that

Chang was pledged to the Germans. He said that

the British and Chinese Corporation were attempting

"to make a corner against us in Europe". They had suc-

ceeded in securing the adhesion of the French to the

Canton Kowloon terms. The Germans had been approached

with the same object and the combination would have

been completed within a week.

The Agent of the German Bank was clearly the

source of his information.

The Chinese Government recognised, although Chang

was justified in "making his escape", that, for the

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loan of 1905, consideration was due to His Majesty's

Government