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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
IREC
[May 13.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Peď 5 JUN 07
SHOTION 1.
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(No. 53.)
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan,
(Telegraphic.) P.
Foreign Office, May 13, 1907. LOAN to the Viceroy of Wuchang. Your telegram No. 77 of to-day.
You may certainly communicate freely on the subject with your Japanese colleague.
You must bear in mind the extent to which His Majesty's Government are committed to the French Government as regards both the Hankow-Canton and Hankow-Szechuan Railways.
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