Hukuang Agreement of 1911 when placing orders
for work on that railway.
4. with regard to the general question of
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assurances, there is always a possibility that,
as attempts to bind the Chinese ŝo a certain
course of action by express atipulations sore
often have the offset of ineiting them to discover
SOLO Deens of eyesion
an art of which they ar
adepts - the policy of obtaining assurances in
this case would be likely to lend to disputea
over breaches of faith which we would be powerless
to prevent while the orders would in Inot go
elsewhere. in the other hand there would be a
better chance of the orders being placed in this
country if the Chinese were placed in such a
position that that was obviously the right and
proper thing for them to do.
5.
In view of these considerations and of the
possibility that some porti en of the returned
funds may be expended on objects to which our
Consortium obligations do not apply, I suggest
that the proposed acmmanication to the Chinese
referred
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