CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2] — Page 326

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Enclosure 6 in Mr. Jamieson's No. 6 of February 9th.,1 1916.

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H.B.M.Consulate-General,

Canton, February 9th., 1915.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 5th. instant on the subject of the Green Island Cement Company's claim in respect of loss sustained owing to the embargo placed by the Provincial Government on the export of limestone, in which you inform me that this case had long been closed and that His Majesty's Minister and myself had given frequent undertakings that no demand for compensation would be made. This statement, I would beg leave to point out, is one far from being correct as reference to the whole correspondence and partichlarly to my letter of November 27th. 1914, will show, and I very much regret that you should have adopted so uncompromis- -ing an attitude towards the various suggestions which I have put forward, and that the attempts which I have made to arrange matters in an accommodating spirit should have been so summarily rejected. You leave me accordingly no option, but again to refer the matter to the High Authorities in the capital, whose views 13 to equitable compensation are, I feel certain, not those held by

you.

I have etc.,

(sd.) J. Wè Jamieson,

Consul-General.

Li Stsun An Shih,

Canton