This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[August 5.]
SECTION 1.
[26238]
No. 1.
(No. 371.) Sir,
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
I TRANSMIT to you herewith copies of correspondence with the War Office upon the subject of the probable date of the evacuation of North China by the British forces at present stationed there.*
I request that you will be good enough to furnish me with your views upon the subject.
Foreign Office, August 5, 1908.
[1905 ...]
I am, &c. (Signed)
E. GREY.
* War Office, July 27; to ditto, August 5, 1908,
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