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(To accompany
5.6.1
Civil Governor to H. M. Consul-General, Canton,
December 18, 1914.
Sir:-
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
despatch of November 27 last on the subject of the claim
presented by the Green Island Cement Co. in connection with
the limestone case.
I would point out that in your letter on this subject
of September 1913 to the former Civil Governor, Li, you stated
that if no interference with the export of limestone were
allowed, your object would have been attained. This sentence
was the principal point of your letter and clearly showed that
no claim for compensation would be made. Accordingly in
November of last year the late Civil Governor authorised the
removal of the prohibition of export from all the limestone
quarries (with the exception of the Fei Shu Yen quarry in Hua
Hsien) which had been closed down, and allowed stone to be
quarried and exported by Chinese merchants in compliance with
your wish.
He also wrote to you stating that the case was
Theinterval which elapsed between your letter of
September 22 and the removal of the prohibition of export
barely exceeded a month and it cannot be said, therefore, that
he was dilatory in taking action.
closed.
Co..
As to the reasons which induced the Green Island Cement
after the prohibition of export had been removed, to
abstain from purchasing stone from the quarry merchants, the
Government of this province can, of course, offer no conjecture.
The levy of a tax on the stone and the control of the Lao Ti
Wan quarry by the officials were not matters which affected the
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