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CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS.

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CONFIDENTIAL.

(105739)

No.1.

(July 22.)

Section 3.

Sir J. Jordan to Earl Gurzon -

(Received July 22),

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(No.231.

My Lord,

Confidential).

Peking, May 31, 1919.

WITH reference to my despatch No.104, Confidential, of the 16th March, I have the honour to report that the recent publică- tion by the Chinese Goverment of all agreements concluded since China's entry into the war has enabled me to obtain copies of the Japanese Wireless Telegraph Loan Agreement of the 21st fruary, 1918, and of the Japanese Telegraph Loan Agreement of the 30th April, 1918,

In the case of the wireless loan the copy of the agreement proper enclosed herewith is made from the official English text, While the supplementary agreement and annexes are translated from the Chinese texts. Accompanying the agreements are translations

departmental memoranda, relating to the transaction which were

published, but which have been obtained privately by the wond Company's representative,

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While the publication of the full text of the agreement does : materially increase our previous knowledge of the details of

transaction, and throws little additional light on the Favre question of the position of the cable companies, it has

aled the all-important fact that the Japanese obtained on the March 1918 - a fortnight after the signature of the agree- - a monopoly of China's external wireless communicationa thirty years,

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