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that this modification should be maintained. As regards the elaboration of rules, I have expressed my willingness to instruct the Consul-General to confer with the Taotai, but I have, at the same time, pointed out that the perfection of Regulations is not so important in the interests of trade in those regions as that the fiscal authorities should abstain from undue interference.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Governab
CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[January 1, 1909.]
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Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
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Foreign Office, January 1, 1909. CHINESE tariff and li-kin. Your telegram No. 207 of the 29th December, 1908. You are authorized to speak to Yuan-Shi-Kai in the sense proposed.
The Chinese will certainly never carry through adequate currency reforms without European expert assistance, and you should therefore stipulate for it.
Our right to insist on things remaining as they stand with regard to tariff and
course, li-kin, if the Treaty Powers cannot all be brought into line, must not, of understood to be in any way impaired by our compliance with present request.
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