CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 621

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 616

AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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No. 1.

C.O.

[December 30. }

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SECTION 2.

RECO [REGP18 MAR 09

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 30.)

(No. 208. Confidential.)

(Telegraphic.) P.

FOREIGN troops in North China.

Peking, December 30, 1908.

The German Government have pressed their Minister here, as he privately informs me, to report what is the minimum to which, in his opinion, the German Count Rex, who personally military force in North China should be reduced. disapproves of a reduction, has suggested garrisons of 150 men in Tien-tsin and Peking respectively.

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