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No. F 3360/3360/10.
and address,
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-8ecretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, 8.W.J.
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.W.1.
6th January, 1921.
Confidential.
Sir:-
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20,000,000.
I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to
transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from His
Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking relative to a
proposal by a British firm at Hong Kong to issue to the
Military Government at Canton a loan for the sterling equivalent of twenty million dollars for the construction of the uncompleted section of the railway
from Hankow to Canton.
2.
Lord Curzon fully appreciates the importance
of the completion of the line to the Colony of Hong Kong, but he does not doubt that Lord Milner will agree that in existing circumstances His Majesty's Government cannot support any scheme that involves a loan by a British
As Lord concern to the Military Government of Canton. Milner is aware, such action would entail a fundamental departure from the established policy of His Majesty's
Government.
3.
Apart from the other cogent reasons adduced by Mr. Clive, which have Lord Curzon's full endorsement, the essential fact is that the Government established at
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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