Consortium rights from Chinese evasion. I
note from your telegram Bo.102 that this
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admission ia distasteful to Minister of
Railways and according to your telegram No.
115 he is working behind our backs in order
to utilise our own money, viz. the Inceunity
funds, in a deliberate attempt to ignore and
evade his country's obligations, so insistence
on admission regarding existing oontracts
appears to me essential.
As regarás minister of Railways' pro-
posals (your telegram No. 102) phrase about
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"extension of certain important uncoupleted
"lines" appears unnecessary in view of my
revision of Note A, which makes the whole
proposal apply (as was intended) not only
to reconditioning existing lines but also to
new construction. The phrase "British
"commercial interests" cannot be accepted
since all lines in China are more or less
beneficial to such interests.
I have,
however, slightly modified the original phrase.
Sun
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