CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 77

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Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

Statement of Enterprises in Manchuria for which the First Instalment of Loan Funas

is required.

(a) For the repayment of funds borrowed from official sources, from

various banks, and from merchants for plague prevention

(3.) For initial expenses in connection with agricultural enterprises

1. Establishment of administrative bureaux, deputies, renting

premises, &c.

£

300,000

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AFFAIRS OF CHINA,

Rce? R18 10 11

[May 31.]

CONFIDENTIAL.

SECTION 2.

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No. 1.

2. For making surveys of agricultural lands, roads, and waterways,

and for making maps, &c.

30,000

3. For investigating into conditions and reporting thereon

4. For compiling reports and making translations of foreign books

relating to agriculture, industries, and colonisation

1. Sugar making

2. Paper making

(c.) For industrial experimental stations with a view to-

3. Dyeing and weaving fabrics from wild silk

4. Establishing distilleries

35,000

5. The making of materials used in house building, such as bricks,

timber, sawing, &e.

6. Analysing mining products

(d.) For iron-designing works, with a view to the manufacture of agricul-

tural and other implements, machinery, &c.

(e.) For the Chen An cattle-ranges ..

H'suan Tung, 3rd

year,

4th moon,

5th day.

Grand total

30.000

5,000

400,000

Signed and sealed by Chao Erh Hsuan, Viceroy of Manchuria.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

(No. 93.) (Telegraphic.) R.

Foreign Office, May 31, 1911. I HAVE been informed by the Russian Ambassador that the French Government will refuse a quotation on the Paris Bourse if any portion of the China currency loan is to be used for railway construction in Manchuria, and his Excellency has suggested that His Majesty's Government might subsequently inform the Chinese Government that they consider the attitude taken by the French Government reasonable. After a brief recapitulation of our policy towards this matter in the past, I replied that I was anxious not to depart from our attitude of non-intervention, and that I did not indeed see what action was at present required at Peking. I undertook, however, to ascertain from Mr. Addis what projects it was proposed to forward by means of the loan, and to explain to him that we could not give our diplomatic support for the construction of railways in Manchuria.

I also promised to suggest to the United States Government that the American group might perhaps remove all diplomatic difficulties by making it clear that the restriction to the four groups of all future applications for financial help applied only to the programme to be undertaken by means of the present loan, and by making known the items of which this programme was composed, in order that the Russian and Japanese Governments might be satisfied that it did not include railways in Manchuria.

Repeat to Tokyo.

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