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[March 20.]
RECR Rec 3 APR OC
SECTION 3.
No. 1.
(No. 50.)
(Telegraphic.) P.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.
CHINESE immigration into Canada.
See your telegram No. 65 of the 19th instant.
Foreign Office, March 20, 1909.
The Chinese Minister has, I understand, been asked to give his opinion, and in particular to ascertain the views of the prospective Chinese Consul for Canada, now apparently at San Francisco on his way to London.
The Chinese Minister has replied that a trial could be made of provisional arrangements, and that exemption from poll tax should be granted to emigrants within any specified number. The Minister has referred to the Japanese arrangement and said that the limit has been overstepped; he advises the Wai-wu Pu to consider how any Regulations which they may agree to should be enforced.
It has been explained to him that Mackenzie King represents the point of view of Canada, and that no fuller details than he can give cau be furnished by His Majesty's Government.
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