Ambassador Reid to
the Secretary of State.
American Embassy,
London, June 29,
1910.
No. 1331.]
Sir: With reference to my 13302 of this date I have the honor
to inclose herewith copy of the foreign office reply, dated the 25th
instant, informing me that the French and German representatives in
Peking have already been instructed by their respective Governments to
cooperate with His Majesty’s chargé d’affaires in approaching the
Chinese Government in the matter of the Hukuang loan, together with a
copy of my note to the foreign office of to-day’s date, which was based
upon your cable of June 28, 11 a.m., containing your instructions to the
American minister in Peking.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure l.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Ambassador Reid.
Foreign Office, June 25, 1910.
No. 22805/10.
Your Excellency: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 24th
instant, in which you are good enough to inform me that the United
States Government accept the arrangement arrived at in Paris last
month in the matter of the Hukuang loan, and that the United States
minister at Peking will be instructed to join his French, German,
and British colleagues in approaching the Chinese Government on the
subject as soon as the Department of State has been informed that
the other Governments also agree to this course.
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I beg leave to state that the French and German Governments have
notified to His Majesty’s Government their assent to the agreement
in question, and I understand from Mr. Max Miiller, His Majesty’s
chargé d’affaires at Peking, that instructions have already reached
his French and German colleagues to cooperate with him in this
matter.
I have, etc.,
(For the Secretary of State):
F. A. Campbell.
[Inclosure 2.]
Ambassador Reid
to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
American Embassy,
London, June 29,
1910.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note dated the 25th instant, in which you are so
good as to infrom me that the French and German Governments have
notified to His Majesty’s Government their assent to the agreement
arrived at in Paris last month in the matter of the Hukuang loan,
and that the French and German representatives in Peking have
already been instructed by their respective Governments to cooperate
with His Majesty’s chargé d’affaires in approaching the Chinese
Government on the subject.
I duly communicated the substance of your note under acknowledgment
to my Government, and I am now in a position to inform you that on
the 28th instant the American minister in Peking was instructed to
join with his British, French, and German colleagues in an identic
note formally requesting the Chinese Government without delay to
complete the loan agreement of June 6, 1909, already initialed by
them, as well as the supplemental agreements come to with a view to
the inclusion of the American group, a step which was in accord with
the expressed wishes of the Chinese Government.
The American minister was also instructed to remind the Wai-wu Pu of
the promise given by Prince Ching to the British and American
representatives in October, 1903, and to point out that in accepting
the present loan agreement this undertaking must henceforth be held
to extend to France and Germany as well as to the two Governments to
whom the promise was originally made.
I have, etc.,
