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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
[November 29.]
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C. O.
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(No. 418.) Sir,
Foreign Office, November 29, 1906.
I HAVE received your despatch No. 395 of the 4th ultimo on the subject of the opening of Manchuria to trade.
I concur in the opinion expressed by you in the last sentence of that despatch, and in the reasons which prompt it, that resistance should be offered to the desire of the Chinese to restrict Treaty port limits to the actual area occupied by foreign residence.
In the view of His Majesty's Government the term "Treaty Port," no matter how any particular port may have been opened, must in all cases be held to include the city and the waterway giving access thereto, together with any roads connecting such waterway with the city.
I am, &c. (Signed) EDWARD GREY.
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