CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12] — Page 173

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to abandon in some degree their attitute of

absolute " non possumus".

This action is

in any case inconsistent

with their attitude was the Strait question The chests if sold direct tot long must either be part of the 73200 chests announc for pethic sale or be in addition to the 18200. hit when we noted hem to

sell direct to the Straits bey said that such a houding w.he abrach & faith suice thy had bathing announced that

battery the actual amount the sold was

somany (good) chests that sales w

m

auction. However, so far as we

-you

an concerned the it is all to our

bepared to eat their word

y this

Au

We must find out, before sazing anything boothing, whether the I. Gut. it be prepare brextend the offer to the Straits ais so whether the Straits to be prepared recept it.

to

It is not quite char which course no he to the advantage the Colonies. If the med the alternatives put toward by the ? Sost.

Gort is accepted,

we shall has obtained

l

مد منامة

rcopition 1. the principle that the stones

whe supplied ducit not four competi

the market with prisa te

speenlators.

169

On the other hand, financially it might he

now tonfure

to the advantage & the Colonies now the offers, but I rather doubt it

Ry Taking

The merage price to 1913 et 12220

(esmialent to £₤148), opmin N. cart the

Straits $ 1270 mighty. Dhe Straits in

$1270

1913 had gotted budgeted

$1500 achart.

on an sotinati

the lowest it

nached in 1912 was what $900. The price is themfore not exceptionally high On the other hand Indin her ceased texport opain to China when the Tuct port

disposed of

the oparon

umpartirs

-China

Nocks an will have to fall back on the non- market. It is posible that as the China stocks an worked off at a horo & some

magnitude presumably. to fries will by trecoupabit by cornering

the non

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