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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
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Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 4.)
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(No. 42.) (Telegraphic.) P.
CUSTOMS succession.
Peking, March 4, 1910.
It is generally believed that Mr. Oliver will be chosen to fill the post of inspector- general in succession to Sir R. Hart, and I see no objection to this selection.
With regard to the post of deputy inspector-general, I understand that my German colleague desires to see it allotted to a German, I have the promised support of the French Minister in the adoption of the course I have consistently advocated, with a view to avoiding international jealousy, namely, the abolition of the post of deputy inspector-general altogether.
On receiving from an indirect source information that the Chinese Government were contemplating the nomination of a Chinese as deputy inspector-general, I thought well to convey a private hint to Liang-tun-yen that I should consider any such innovation as constituting an infringement of clauses 71 and 6 of the Anglo-German loan agreements of 1896 and 1898 respectively.
(See my telegram No. 20 of the 4th ultimo.)
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