C.0. 33035
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
SECTION 2.
(No. 113.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
Foreign Office, August 24, 1908.
CHINESE Consular Representative in Indo-China.
I approve action reported in your telegram No. 146 of the 22nd August. Unless French agreed to the proposal we certainly could not undertake this.
(No. 320.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
No. 2.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir A. Nicolson.
BRITISH interests at Harbin.
Foreign Office, August 24, 1908.
You may certainly communicate to Russian Government what you propose in your telegram No. 145 of the 23rd August.
You may also add substance of my instructions to Sir J. Jordan, of which text will be found in my telegram No. 111 to him of the 15th August.
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