CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4] — Page 493

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STATEMENT of GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO'S CLAIM on PROVINCIAL

in connection with stoppage of Limestone GOVERNMENT OF KWANGTUNG supplies by order of that Government.

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For 24 years past, since the formation of the Green Island Cement Company, Limestone has been obtained from the Kwangtung

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Province the system being to contract with Chinese for delivery ex

On the junks at the Company's Hok Un (Kowloon) or Macao Works 26th APRIL, 1912, the Kwangtung Government (suddenly and without warning) issued a proclamation of which the following is an extract:-

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"The natural products of China should belong to China. "export of such products being a serious hlow to her rights and "privileges, the Government have every right to prohibit the export

"of blue limestone."

"If the export from Kwangtung be entirely prohibited, foreign "merchants must go elsewhere and obtain their supplies from foreign The quality "countries, which will entail heavy cost of carriage. "moreover of foreign stone is not to be compared with our Kwangtung #stone, hence the cement manufactured therefrom will not compare with "our company's article and we will find an infinitely greater market The prosperity of the company accordingly depends "for our goods.

"entirely on whether or not blue limestone can be exported."

The effect of this proclamation was not only to prevent the Company's contractors from fulfilling their existing contracts, but also made it impossible for the Company to enter into fresh contracts. The Company's supplies therefore came to a sudden stop, and as it has been impossible to obtain suitable limestone from other sources except at unreasonable cost the Company make the following claim on the Kwangtung Provincial Government: -

Limestone undelivered by Contractors owing to stoppage of export by the Canton Government amounted to 152,750 tons which would have produced 114,563 tons Cement or 687,378 casks.