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thereby from denouncing the Hankow Agreement.
Attention was alo drawn to telegram No.352 of May
8th, to Sir Miles Lampson, intimating strong disapproval
of a project (reported in Sir Miles Lampson's telegram No.
824, of May 5th) by a Major Nathan to finance Chang Tso-
lin under the guise of an industrial loan. The opinion
was expressed, and met with some support, that neither
from the point of view of international law was it
necessary, nor from that of the public interest was it
desirable, to discourage financial assistance from private
sources to Chang Tao-lin, who had at least shown himself
less unreasonable and less anti-British than the
Nationalist Government whom he was fighting and who were
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