CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 42

Enclosure! in diese Jordan's No.488% of December 12, 1912.

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The obstruction caused to legitimate British

trading enterprise by the embarge on the quarrying and

export of limestone in the Province of Canton has formed

the subject of numerous interviews and communications

between the Wai Chiao Pu and Fis Majesty's Minister, and

Sir John Jordan deomo it desirable to plsen on record the

series of facts which have given rise to his represent-

ations.

For some twenty years past the Green Island

Company procured through Chinese contractors from quarries

on the North and West Rivers limestone for the manufacture

of cement, nor was the export of the stone ever interfered

with until the present year, On April 26th last, however,

the Canton Tutu issued a proclamation forbidding the un-

authorised quarrying and export of limestone from any

part of the provinga, The enclosed copy of the proclam-

stion shows that the avowed object is to hamper the lngi-

timate trade of competitors of the Canton Cement Works.

On