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Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan 20 MAR 09,
Foreign Office, No.47, dated March 17th, 1909.
Hankow-Canton Railway Loan. Your telegram No.62 of
16th March.
Result of London negotiations will not be known prob-
ably for about a week but Mr. Addis anticipates that mat-
ter will be concluded successfully. Pending the announce-
ment Germans have undertaken to withhold their signature
from Final Agreement. There is little doubt that they will
sign immediately if the negotiations collapse.
Contents of my telegram No.45 of 15th March to you
have been telegraphed to Paris and Berlin groups and lur.
Addis has expressed the hope that their Ministers at Peking
may be given similar directions. In reply Berlin group
state that Syndicate cannot meet before Friday and therefore
until a decision has been come to cannot approach their
Foreign Office. It is best under these conditions to post-
pone any protest in writing on our part lest Germans should
use it as a pretext for immediately concluding Final Agreement
Has Chinese acceptance of German Offer been embodied in
a Preliminary Agreement and signed? Can you ascertain this?
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