Show CHINA WAS DECEIVED Minister Conger Promised Chinese Railway Would Be Built by liy American Company Des Ia Sept 21 In an ad addre address dress before the Grant cub club tonight former to China Edwin II Conger wild said that in the failure of the Americans to build the Chinese rail tray ay faith had been bean broken with China and good standing with Chi nose iese seriously impaired We made a very serious mistake when hen we permitted our railroad conces concesion ion sion in China to be salt said Mr Conger It will prove a sad blow to o ur future efforts to establish advantageous ageous business relations with that country It will set us back ninny many yours ears When we were granted the conces concession zion sion personally I made representations to the Chinese that Urn the railroad would be b built by Americans who got tIe the eon cession assured them on my honor that hat it was riot not secured tot foi time the purpose of exploitation and that it would not be besold besold sold or relinquished Now however it has been and the business men of China feel that they have a right to look upon future business propositions from Americans with suspicion Time The relinquishment of the conces concession concession sion was utterly defenseless it seems to me inc after the representations which we made to the Chinese It was vastly more harmful to this nation than the boycott concerning which so much has been said and written |