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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[December 19.]/
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SEOTION 19 JAN 08
(No. 139.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
CHINA-JAPAN telegraphs.
Your telegram No. 191 of the 10th ultimo.
Foreign Office, December 19, 1907.
The manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in China has informed the Company that the Japanese refuse to close ten public telegraph offices outside railway territory, where they are accepting at Japanese rates traffic to the entire world. They further refuse to recognize Manchuria as independent Chinese territory. The Russians are threatening to cancel recently-concluded Convention with China in
consequence.
Please telegraph report on the subject.
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