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Sir:-
(To accompany No. 9. ኢ..?
H. M. Consul-General to Civil Governor.
Canton,
December 22, 1914.
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In continuation of my despatch of the 21st instant
on the subject of the Green Island Cement Company's case I
have the honour to inform you that I yesterday received a
letter from the Managers, in which it is stated that they are
unable to procure limestone of suitable quality from Kwangtung
and are still therefore dependent on Haiphong for supplies.
Contracts, it is true, have been entered into with Chinese
contractors, and thereunder 600 tons of stone have been delivered,
but it has been of poor quality and quite unsuitable for
cement making and at the present time no further shipments are
reaching Hongkong.
That, in spite of all the recent assurances of the
Kwangtung Government that the industry shall be allowed to
continue as before, this should be the situation to-day,
affords the clearest proof of how the action taken by them in
the past has successfully killed a flourishing business legi-
timately carried on by British subjects, and constitutes the
strongest possible ground in equity for compensation on the
lines which I have already indicated. The only two quarries
from which suitable limestone can be procured, the Fại Shu
Yen and the group at Lao Ti Wan, are in the hands of Government and from the others being worthless the British company is
allowed the illusory privilege of drawing stone.
The
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