CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12] — Page 199

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Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 4th, November, 1918.

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Encloure 2.

with

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of your telegram of the 12th. October, in which you request me to sond by mail observations on the subject of the development of coal and iron deposits in the Kuangtune Province referred to in Sir Jonn Joruan's Despatch No. 32% of

the lith. July to the Foreign Office.

2.

I enclose a copy of the letter from Sir John Jordan forwarding copies of his two Despatchos Nos. 326 and 327 to which Sir F. H. May replied by telegraph that the local syndicate were in communication with Mr. Mayers of the British and Chinese Corporation, Peking, and asked the Minister to refer to him saying that he was sure that he could rely on Sir John Jordan's co-operation and assistance. I may say at once that I had only one conversation with Mr. Moore-Bennett in February last the substance of which I recorded at the time in a minute addressed to the Governor of

which I enclose a copy.

In a conversation which Sir F. H. May had Mr. Liang Shih-yi in August the subject of concessions for coal and iron in Kuangtung was raised, and Mr. Liang Shih-yi made the following points as recorded by Sir F. H. May in a

minute dated the 14th. August:-

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M.P.,

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