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Paraphrase of Telegram to Sir J.Jordan,
No.63, dated Foreign Office, April 1st, 1909.
Canton-Hankow Railway Loan. My telegram No.62 of
1st April.
Instructions have been sent to His Majesty's Am-
bassador at Berlin to speak privately and confidential-
ly of the promise which Chang gave us in 1905, and to
state that while we wish to see an agreement between
the three groups and do not desire to interfere with
German enterprise, we should, in the case of this par-
ticular line feel obliged to protest to the Chinese
Authorities that the spirit of the 1905 Agreement
would be violated by its being given to others.
The suggestion has been made to Mr.Addis that,
at the meeting to-morrow, he might explain that in the
event of the Chinese refusing to modify the Prelimin-
ary Agreement and with a view to persuading them to do
so, we should act thus, and that we should therefore
take
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