[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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[November 17.]
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Sir Edward Grey to Sir F. Bertie.
(No. 399.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
CHINESE currency loan.
Your telegram No, 100 of the 16th November.
Foreign Office, November 17, 1910.
It rests for the moment with the United States Government to induce China to allow joint signature of the loan agreement, and until China consents to this other legations would appear to have no locus standi,
The proposal contained in the second paragraph of your telegram seems, in consequence, somewhat premature.
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