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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL
[6674]
(No. 40.)
No. 1.
92
[February 27.]
SECTION 7.
May
(Telegraphic.) P.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir F. Bertie.*
CHINESE currency loan.
Control over expenditure of loan funds.
Your telegram No. 9 of the 14th instant.
Foreign Office, February 27, 1911.
His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been directed, as soon as his American, French, and German colleagues have received similar instructions, to join them in making to the Chinese Government a joint declaration in the sense desired by the United States Government.
* Also to Sir E. Goschen, No. 16, Telegraphic, mutatis mutandis. [1909 dd-7]
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