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CONFIDENTIAL.

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PERROS MAR 14

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 6th. March, 1914.

Sir,

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0792 In continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 27th. ultimo, I have the honour to transmit, for your informa- -tion, copy of a reply to my letter of the 26th. ultimo to Hie Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton on the subject of the claim of the Green Island Cement Company to compensation for losses incurred owing to the enbargo on the export of limestone from the Kwangtung. Province.

2.

I am fully alive to the strenuous efforts made both by Mr. Jamieson and by His Majesty's Minister at Peking to relieve the Green Island Cement Company of the disability under which they have been suffering.

But if an export tax of $1 per ton is, as I think it must be, regarded as prohibitive then it is evident that up to the end of November at any rate the disability had not been removed.

3.

I shall endeavour to get the Company to send

a European representative to Canton to endeavour to arrange for the

export of stone.

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BE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, 1.F.,

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I have the honour to be, sir.

Your most obedient, humble servant,

Governor, &c ..