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Rro 14 MAY 09

MEMORANDUMRECR

With reference to the enquiry from the Spunish

Embassy of the 5th instant His Majesty's Secretary of

State for Foreign Affairs has the honour to state that

Sir J. Jordan, His Majesty's Minister at Peking re-

ported on January 10th lust the receipt of a note from

the Wai-wu-Pu on the subject of tariff and likin.

Sir J. Jordan was authorized at the time to inform

Yuan-shi-Kai in reply that His Mujesty's Government

were ready to support the proposal of the Chinese Gov-

ernment which amounted to a requent for assistance to

render operative Article 8 of the Anglo-Chinese Treaty

of September 5th, 1902 on condition that the latter

carried out practical measures for the reform of the

currency, the issue of Mining Regulations and the en-

forcement gencrally of the provisions of the Commercial

Treaty of 1902 between Great Britain and China.

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regards currency reform it is evident that the Chinese

Government will be able to affect nothing of practical

value without expert foreign assistance, and Sir J.

Jordan