CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 291

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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

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[June 4.]

SECTION 1.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir A. Nicolson.

(No. 69.) (Telegraphic.) P.

Foreign Office, June 4, 1907. CUSTOM-HOUSES in Manchuria: Your telegram No. 83 of the 2nd instant. You may assure M. Isvolsky that we will do all that is possible at Peking to facilitate matters with regard to the point on which Russian contention is admitted in the matter of duties on the railway (see Sir J. Jordan's telegram No. 79 of the 12th ultimo),

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