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Real 23 MAR 14

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

27th. February, 1914.

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With reference to my Confidential Despatch of

the 20th. instant, I have the honour to transmit, for your informa- -tion the enclosed copy of a despatch from is Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton to is Britannic Majesty's Linister at Peking on the subject of the claim of the Green Island Cement Company against the Chinese Government for compensation for losses occasioned by the embargo on the export of limestone from the Kwangtung Province; together with copy of a letter I have addressed to Lir. Jamieson on the subject of his despatch to Sir John Jordan. I take the opportunity of forwarding copies of the correspondence noted in the margin of which I find you are not in possession.

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In my view the Green Island Cement Company have

a strong claim for compensation for losses incurred during the many months covered by the unsuccessful negotiations to restore to them the Treaty rights of which they have been so long deprived.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, hable servant,

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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