CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2] — Page 292

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No.32.

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(Is accompany. Ve. 1.)

H. M. Minister to H. M. Consul-General, Canton.

Paking,

September 4th, 1914.

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near) and guiltajor rejekuld aꞌydnejad nik yd sat of besseIDUS

uild od zniwo bealataus asof not cislo s'yasquç) Jasus) Enɛ[s]

Ed gruutynaud mort enodaswil to drogro add no beoafq ayLadie

-Isomi woy li bugilao Ivet bluow I hem (an's) has uH MAJUT

of betaoibni manes edð að mnoluntænerqez nami bikow yonal

avejr Tisat en oð eðaokesmando bra beateongo esodd

.oje „evad İ

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Di mo D. X you yumok nie

•gnollyson to zomrievod

I have received your despatch No.35 of the 19th ultimo and

I have learnt with much satisfaction of the settlement of the

difficulties in regard to the issue of export permits to the omers

and contractors of limestone quarries at Yingtak and other places in

the Province which has led to the resumption of shipments of the

stone at favourable rates and without differentiation in treatment

to the Green Island Cement Company. I congratulate you on the satisfactory conclusion of this phase of the Company's case.

As regards the Company's claim for $512,378, I am quite

ready to believe that in the present state of the finances of the

Province there is less prospect than ever of obtaining any satisfact ion from the Kuangtung authorities, but in view of the fact that I

am precluded for the reasons given in my despatch No. 11 of the 31st

of March from presenting the Company's demand for compensation for

losses incurred by them as a Revolutionary claim, and also because in reply to my representations the Chinese Government have contended

not unreasonably that the matter is primarily one which concerns the

Provincial Authorities and that efforts should be made to effect a

settlement locally, I am still of opinion that the claim should be

presented once more to the Provincial Authorities and if they reject

it or plead their inability to meet it, I shall then be in a posit-

ion to insist upon the question being taken up by the Central

Government.

There is, however, no use in disguising the fact that

when the moment has arrived for me to treat the matter with the Wai

Chiso Pu as a diplomatic question between His Majesty's Government

and the Chinese Government there is very little prospect of the

claim being settled even if the Central Government admit their

liability as there are no funda available and so long as the war in

Europe continues there is no likelihood of any improvement in the

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