CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909 — Page 195

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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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[July 10,]

SECTION 1,

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

(No. 197. Confidential.) Sir,

Foreign Office, July 10, 1909.

I TRANSMIT to you herewith a copy of a letter from the War Office* suggesting the desirability of raising from a three months to a six months basis the reserve food supply for the legation guard and followers at Peking.

I should be glad to be favoured with your observations on Brigadier-General Waters' proposal.

* War Office, July 3, 1909.

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I am, &c.

É. GREY.