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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1,
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[March 20.]
SECTION 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 20.)
(No. 43. Confidential.) Sir,
Peking, January 22, 1909. I TOOK the opportunity of a visit which I paid yesterday to Liang T'un-yen, the Associate President of the Wai-wu Pu, to convey to him the substance of your telegram No. 16 of the 18th instant.
I informed his Excellency that His Majesty's Government had learned with satis- faction of the assurances which Prince Ch'ing had given to my American colleague and myself that there was no intention, in connection with the removal of Yuan Shih-kʻai from office, of making any change either in regard to foreign relations or in internal reforms, and as his Excellency was present at the interview, I suggested that he might inform the Prince of the satisfactory result which it had produced.
His Excellency said he would do so with pleasure, and again expressed his own misgivings about the future. He regarded himself as a very unworthy successor to Yuan, and scarcely know why he was selected for the post.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
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