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PEOP Rec 20 MAR 09

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Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J. Jordan, No. 48, dated

March 18th. 1909.

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With reference to your telegram No. 63 of March

16th. in regard to the Hankow-Canton Railway Loan, I am

informed that Berlin group telegraph, in reply to an

inquiry as to whether their Agent at Peking Mr. Cordes

had received instructions for the suspension of his

negotiations with the Chinese Government, that he has

been directed to withhold his signature of the Final

Agreement until they again communicate with him.

information contained in the final paragraph of your

telegram, above referred to, would therefore seem to

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be correct, and it would appear in the circumstances

that we are justified in at once formally reminding the

Chinese Government that we consider the undertaking of

February 13th. as binding and expect them to give ef-

fect to it. Pray do so, if you agree in this view.

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