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# CHINA TRADE
## CONFIDENTIAL
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### No. 1
Foreign Office to Board of Trade
[September 15]
SECTION C 0.
45804 IR 27 NOV DAT.
Sir,
Foreign Office, September 15, 1906.
I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before the Board of Trade, copy of a despatch which has been received from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking,* on the subject of the special trade privileges granted to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company with regard to the transport of brick tea from Foochow and Hankow to Tien-tsin and Kalgan.
I am to request that Sir E. Grey may be furnished with any observations that the Board may have to make on the subject of this despatch.
I am, &c.
(Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Mr. Carnegie, No. 312, July 23, 1906.
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