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# CHINA TRADE
**CONFIDENTIAL**
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No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
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[October 5.]
SECTION 1, 27 001 08
(No. 121.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Foreign Office, October 5, 1908. SHANGHAE Opium Commission. Your telegram No. 158 of the 3rd instant. The United States' Ambassador here has made a similar communication. I have informed his Excellency that we consider title of Commissioner more appropriate and adequate, and that it would be contrary to the practice of His Majesty's Government to follow suggestion of his Government, and would create an inconvenient precedent.
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