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No.91.
Mr Acting Consul General Fox to Sir Joha Jordan.
Canton
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14 August, 1909.
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RECR REP 2 OCT 09
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SEP 20 1909)
In my despatch No.89 of the 9th instant I reported
to you the teras of the settlement which had begu come
to between Messrs. Autterfield & Svire and the Self
Government Society with regard to the
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'Fatahan' c389.
The 99010591 copies of 201responianos with Messrs.
atterfieli & vire throw, I venture to thias, a 10-
teresting light on the wanner in which this settlem wit
was affected.
That this garblet translation of the firm's letter
to me was read out at the meeting in question, is bayoni
all doubt:
it is not disputed that Mr Mok attended this
meeting as Messrs. Butterfield & Trice's accredibet rom
pressutativa, sad it is certain that this version of the
letter va accepted by the nesting in good faith and 1:
now believed by the Chinese puolis both in Canton ani
Hongkong
Sir John Jordan 5.6.3., K.0.M. 74,,
His Majesty's Minister,
Peking.
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