CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 354

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AMERICAN EMBASSY,

LONDON,

Muy Bra. 1909.

Sir:-

With reference to my Note of the 27th ultimo und

to the Foreign Office Memorandum, dated the let. April

and received here on the 30th of that month relating to

the subject of Tariff and Likin in China, I have the

honour to inform you that my Government is gratified to

learn of the readiness of His Majesty's Government to

support the Chinese proposal when the time for the

inauguration of such a discussion seems opportune.

The Government of the United States, on the 22nd.

of last March, about the time of Mr. Reid's Note to you

on the subject, also, through our Ambassadors at Paris,

Berlin, St. Petersburg and Tokyo, made enquiries as to

the attitude of France, Germany, Russia and Japan to-

wards the contemplated measure.

As I informed you in my Note of the 27th ultimo,

Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.

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