The Archive · 1938

Railway Denied

London, Mar. 9.

Well-informed quarters in the City state emphatically that there is no truth in reports that any British concern is making a loan to China for a railway to con-neet Yunnan with Burma.

It is generally believed that the reports must be based on an imaginative misrepresentation of the negotiations now proceeding in London for a loan to China in order to enable China to maintain her payments on foreign loans.—Reuter, foreign lending; and that the van Zeeland Report would be treated as an urgent matter,

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