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No. 3.
Sir,
Canton, February 1, 1913.
As I had the honour to report by telegraph, I had
on the 28th. ultimo an interview with the Tutu, at which the
Manager of the Green Island Cement Company was present, but not
the Industrial Commissioner, in order to endeavour to arrive at
some settlement of the existing impasse in respect of the supply
to the Company of Limestone.
The enclosed copies of subsequent correspondence
with the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, who acted as interpreter, represent very fairly what took place. At the very commencement the Tutu wished me to acknowledge that the subject of discussion was a commercial one, and not one to which Treaties were applicable, nor one properly falling within the scope of diplomatic negotiation
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-tinction, whereby I can only surmise that he was seeking to dis- -avow in advance any liability in respect of a claim for damages, but, waiving terminology, proceeded to lay my view of the case before him. I recapitulated the arguments I had previously addressed to him in writing, I informed him that both His Majesty's Government and the Government of Hongkong could only attribute a maintenance of the present attitude to a lack of friendly feeling and wound up with an appeal to him to exercise his utmost in- -fluence as head of the province to induce the Industrial Commis -
-sioner to come to some amicable settlement.
In reply he, in effect, disclaimed any authority over the various Commissioners, who, he said, were individually responsible for the conduct of their respective departments, and added that, in his opinion, the Industrial Commissioner had acted rightly in refusing to issue permits to any individual who had, by failing to take out a quarrying licence, contravened the Mining Regulations. I then pointed out that a ruling of this kind
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