BOYCOTT IN CANTON.
THE BRITISH OFFER. PROPOSED BASISOF SETTLEMENT Received Julv 26, 10.35 a.m. CANNON, July 25. The conference with the view to overcoming the anti-British boycott failed to arrive at a settlement, but the British delegation later stated that they were prepared to agree to a settlement on the basis of an industrial loan for- the development of Canton conditionally on a loopline being built connecting the Canton-Hankow and Canton-Kowloon railways with provisions for the employment of a British engineer-in-chief and a British chief accountant.
The British intimated that they were ready to consider alternative industrial enterprises. The Chinese delegation replied that they must have time to consider the proposal an® would refer it to the Canton Government. —Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 7
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120BOYCOTT IN CANTON. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 7
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