The Cassel Collieries Contract.

The article presents the text of the Cassel Collieries Contract between Great Britain and the defunct Kwantung Government in China. This agreement is made on 23 April and agrees that the Kwongtung Government will permit the Syndicate to bore, examine and survey such ground as the Syndicate may be advised, or have reason to believe, contains coal within the some districts of Canton. The Kwongtung Goverrnment shall cause this agreement to be provisionally signed and chopped, whereupon the Syndicate shall take all such steps as may be necessary to obtain the official sanction and approval thereto of the Central Government of China at Beijing.