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Rro 14 MAY 09
MEMORANDUMRECR
With reference to the enquiry from the Spunish
Embassy of the 5th instant His Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs has the honour to state that
Sir J. Jordan, His Majesty's Minister at Peking re-
ported on January 10th lust the receipt of a note from
the Wai-wu-Pu on the subject of tariff and likin.
Sir J. Jordan was authorized at the time to inform
Yuan-shi-Kai in reply that His Mujesty's Government
were ready to support the proposal of the Chinese Gov-
ernment which amounted to a requent for assistance to
render operative Article 8 of the Anglo-Chinese Treaty
of September 5th, 1902 on condition that the latter
carried out practical measures for the reform of the
currency, the issue of Mining Regulations and the en-
forcement gencrally of the provisions of the Commercial
Treaty of 1902 between Great Britain and China.
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regards currency reform it is evident that the Chinese
Government will be able to affect nothing of practical
value without expert foreign assistance, and Sir J.
Jordan