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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
5944
[January 1
18 FEE 09
SECTION
(No. 11.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.
DISMISSAL of Yuan Shih Kai.
Foreign Office, January 11, 1909.
His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been authorized to make representations to the Wai-wu Pu or to the Regent, as suggested in your telegrams Nos. 8 and 9 of yesterday's date. Please inform the United States' Government of this, and request that their Minister at Peking be instructed in the same sense.
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