CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 442

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

CHINA TRADE,

CONFIDENTIAL.

439

[September 9.]

SHOTION 6.

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No. 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received September 9.)

(No. 167.) (Telegraphic.) P.

Peking, September 8, 1907. WITH reference to my telegram No. 163 of the 28th ultimo, I am now informed by His Majesty's Consul at Nanking that a Proclamation postponing the whole scheme pending negotiations between the Wai-wu Pu and myself has been issued by the Opium Monopoly Bureau.

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