[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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[November 19P 8 APR OC
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(No. 525.) Sir,
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan,
Foreign Office, November 19, 1908. I HAVE received your despatch No. 433 of the 30th September on the subject of the retaliatory measures, if any, which should be taken in British Concessions in China in view of the conditions imposed upon alien lot-holders in German Concessions.
I concur in your view that the adoption of such measures would not be advisable, and that no further action is required on the part of the British authorities beyond informing the German authorities, when occasion arises, that British subjects cannot be allowed to bind themselves by the conditions set forth in the form of lease granted in the German Concessions.
I am, &c. (Signed) E. GREY.
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