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CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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C.O. 15433
[April 21.j
SECTION 1.
GP 7 MAY OC
No. 1.
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Question asked in the House of Commons, April 21, 1909.
Mr. Hazleton,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Minister at Peking has addressed a protest to the Chinese Government against the acceptance of a German loan for the building of the Canton-Hankow Railway; if so, on what grounds; and whether British financiers were offered the loan on the terms accepted by the Germans, and refused it.
Answered by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir Edward Grey),
The terms offered by the German group were declined by the British and Chinese Corporation, and His Majesty's Minister at Peking, acting under instructions from the Foreign Office, has addressed a protest to the Chinese Government on the ground that the conclusion of a loan on such terms was a breech of the spirit of the undertaking given to us by the Chinese in 1905, as explained in my reply to the honourable Member for Mid-Armagh on the 7th instant.
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