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26th February, 1914.
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"LA MIH
have the honour to acknowledge your Hemor- andum of the 24th instant sovering copy of a despatch to H.8.M'■ Minister at Peking on the subject of the claim of the Green Island Cement Company for compensation for the embargo placed by the Chinese Authorities on the export or stone from the Canton Province.
2.
With reference to your comments therein on the monthly claim of the Company for loss of profit, I would venture to point out that the Chinese Authorities have never given a satisfactory reply to your very pertin- ent enquiry, dated the 22nd of Way, wheneo and from whom limestone, the principal output of which used in former years to be shipped abreed can be procured or purchased by British merchants.
3.
Koreover on June the 20th you reported to Sir John Jordan that "all endeavours to arrive at a sottle- ment wil regard to this matter locally have failed owing to the determination of the Industrial Commissioner not to
abandon
a lucrative monopoly"; and you added that
the defiance of Treaty was incontestable. Under date of
the 23rd of Fovombor last the Vice-Consul, in your absence, addressed Sir John Jordan informing him that notwithstand-
ing that at an interview with Mr. Jamieson on the let of
November last Tung Tutu had agreed that, "apart from the
Britannic Majesty's Congul-General,
CANTON.
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