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

CHINA TRADE.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[23274]

No. 1.

C.O. 22375

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REGP 5 JUL 09,

[June 21.j

SECTIC 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 21.) (No. 206. Confidential.) Sir,

Peking, June 2, 1909. SOME weeks ago I learnt from M. Wallenberg, who came from Tokio to represent Sweden at the funeral of the late Emperor, that he had overcome the objections of his Government, as reported in my despatch No. 550, Most Confidential, of the 9th December, 1908, to the treaty negotiated by him last July, but that he was instructed to negotiate an additional article reaffirming favoured nation privileges which was to be appended to and form part of the treaty. In this he has succeeded and the additional article, a copy of which is enclosed, was signed at the Wai-wu Pu on the 24th May. M. Wallenberg states that the ratifications of the treaty and additional article will be exchanged as soon as the documents arrive from Sweden.

The reasons of the Swedish Government for insisting on this additional article are not apparent, and M. Wallenberg informs Mr. Campbell privately that, in reply to questions of the Wai-wu Pu, he has had to confess that he was unable to explain exactly why it was wanted.

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I have, &c.

J. N. JORDAN.

Inclosure in No. 1.

Additional Article to Swedish Treaty of July 2, 1908.

IT is expressly agreed by the high contracting parties that the provisions of article 4 of the present treaty shall in no respect whatever confer upon Swedish subjects in China or upon Chinese subjects in Sweden any privileges or immunities other than those already granted or which may hereafter be granted to the subjects or citizens of the most favoured nation.

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