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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
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[May 30.]
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REG 16 JUN II
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(No. 195.) Sir,
Sir Edward Grey to Sir F. Bertie.
Foreign Office, May 30, 1911.
I EXPLAINED to M. Cambon to-day, in the same way as I had explained to Count Benckendorff yesterday, the procedure which I proposed to adopt with regard to the Chinese loan as affecting Manchuria.
I also explained to him the difficulty we had in making diplomatic representations at Peking opposed to railway enterprise in Manchuria. I had refused the American request, that we should give support at Peking for the railways, on the ground that the agreement with Russia bound me to neutrality. I had practically given it to be understood that I would stand aside.
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