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entirely incorrect. I need hardly say that the officials made no attempt whatever to obstruct the export of limestone and that the

proceedings taken against Lo P'u, late Commissioner of Industry,

had nothing whatever to do with the limestone case, as you will yourself see if you refer to the Government Gazette of this province of September 28 last.

I am surprised to learn from one of your despatches under reply that you adduce, as a reason for demanding compensa-

-tion, the fact that the Green Island Cement Company cannot obtain

a suitable supply of stone. I would remind you that you have al-

➡ways maintained that limestone was not an article on the export

of which any embargo could be placed and that the closing down of

the quarries was an infraction of treaty stipulations. Since the

prohibition of export has been removed, however, the matter has

ceased to be a question of treaty stipulation, and how can the

officials be expected to enquire what particular kind of stone is

regarded by the company as necessary for their purposes ? If all

the foreign merchants who come to Kuangtung to purchase local

products found that the particular class of goods which they

desired to buy did not exist, could it be said that their trade

was obstructed and that there were grounds for claims for compensa-

- tiont

With regard to your statement that the Fei Shu Yen

and Lao Ti Wan quarries are in the hands of the Government, I need not dwell on the well-known fact that permission to quarry can

only be obtained from the Goverment. The prohibition of the

export of limestone from the Fei Shu Yen quarry was imposed not

recently, but in the time of the Empire; and as regards the Lao Ti

Wan quarry, no prohibition of export therefrom has been imposed

since the removal of the prohibition last year. If the Green

Island Cement Company regard the stone from that quarry as suit-

-able, they have only to arrange with the contractors for the

purchase thereof.

In short, from the moment of the removal of the

prohibition of export of limestone, this case was closed. The

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