This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
CHINA TRADE,
CONFIDENTIAL.
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[September 9.]
SHOTION 6.
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No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received September 9.)
(No. 167.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Peking, September 8, 1907. WITH reference to my telegram No. 163 of the 28th ultimo, I am now informed by His Majesty's Consul at Nanking that a Proclamation postponing the whole scheme pending negotiations between the Wai-wu Pu and myself has been issued by the Opium Monopoly Bureau.
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