CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916 — Page 273

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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In any further communication

on the subject, please quote

No. 87780/F.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State.

Foreign Office,

London

sir,

C

22754

RECE

REG 15 MAY 16]

FOREIGN OFFICE

May 13 1916.

I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit

to you herewith, for the information of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, copy of a

telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, to the

effect that the Chinese Government are unable to

meet the coupons of the Canton-Kowloon Railway

Loan due on the 18th instant,

I am to add that the British and Chinese

Corporation intend to inform the Chinese Government that they will not make the advance necessary to meet the coupons.

The Under Secretary of State

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

W2angley

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