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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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(Confidential) Sir,
No. 1.
[December 6.]
SECTION 2.
Admiralty to Foreign Office.--(Received December 8.)
Admiralty, December 5, 1907. WITH reference to your letter of to-day's date, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a telegram, dated the 5th December, from the Admiralty to the Commander-in-chief, China Station,
I am,
&c.
(Signed)
Inclosure in No. 1.
C. I. THOMAS.
Admiralty to Vice-Admiral Sir A. Moore.
(Telegraphic.) P.
Admiralty, December 5, 1907. TELEGRAM received. No action therein suggested should be taken until further instructions have been communicated to you. You need not, however, recall the vessels, if any, which may by this time have been dispatched to the Canton District and the West River. As soon as you are able to form an estimate of the probable results of the steps contemplated or now being taken by the Viceroy with a view to the mercantile marine of foreigners being protected, their Lordships desire that you will furnish a report by cable.
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