CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 403

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government

AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

[September 2.]

SECTION 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 2.)

(No. 164.) (Telegraphic.) P.

Peking, September 2, 1907. WITH reference to my telegram No. 153 of the 30th July, I have the honour to inform you that the Viceroy of Nanking has given His Majesty's Consul at that port an assurance as to the British nationality of any naval adviser who may be engaged by China.

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