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20 cent
FOREIGN
OFFICE
FOREIGN OFFICE,
January 13
C O
1250
196
1911.
Sir:-
With reference to your letter 36193 of the 12th
ultimo forwarding a copy of a despatch from the
Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong rela-
tive to the reopening of the Mint at Canton for the
coinage of twenty cent pieces, I am directed by
Secretary Sir E. Grey to forward to you herewith a
copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at
Peking enclosing a copy of correspondence on the
subject between Sir F. May and Mr. Max Müller, who
was till recently in charge of His Majesty's Legation.
It will be seen that Mr. Max Müller expressed
his inability to intervene in the matter in the sense
desired by Sir F. May without instructions from this
Department, and, in view of the considerations set
forth in Sir J. Jordan's covering despatch, Sir E.
Grey proposes, with the concurrence of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, to approve Mr. Max Miller's
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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