(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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REG 1 SEP 10:
[August 8.]
SECTION 3.
Sir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 8.)
(No. 216. Confidential.) Sir,
Berlin, August 6, 1910. WITH reference to the rumour which I have already had the honour to report to you with regard to the dispatch of a German military mission to China, I learn from a source stated to be trustworthy, in touch with the Russian Embassy, that, though nothing has so far been definitely decided, there is an idea under consideration of sending as many as thirty officers. Colonel von Falkenhayn, Chief of the Staff of the XVIth Army Corps at Metz, is understood to have been selected as head of the mission. The officer in question has already served in China under Count Waldersee,. and has a certain knowledge of the country and of the language.
I have, &c.
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W. E. GOSCHEN.
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