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
ん
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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