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Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan, No. 44, dated

March 12th. 1909.

Hankow-Canton Railway Loan.

of March 12th.

Your telegram No.59

The German representatives explained at a meeting

which took place to-day that their agent had concluded

the Preliminary Agreement under a misunderstanding,

that they earnestly desired to rescind, if possible,

the terms agreed to, and hoped that in this the support

of the British and French Ministers would be accorded

them. A draft was submitted by the British and Chinese

Corporation arranging that the three Syndicates should

issue all railway loans on equal terms, and, with re-

gard to the control of the funds, on conditions not in-

ferior to those of the Canton-Kowloon loan, the three

groups in rotation to nominate the Chief Engineer. The

British representatives claimed however that in the

case of the Hankow-Canton and Pukow-Sinyang lines the

Engineer should be British and that this last stipula-

tion should not apply.

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