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Enclosure2in Sir John Jordan's No.455 of December 15, 1910.

H.M.Chargé d'Affaires to Sir P.May, Hongkong.

Movember 9 1910.

sir,

your

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of despatch No.5778/04 of the 24th ultimo in which you ask me to move the Chinese Government to suspend at the earliest possible moment the permission accorded to the Canton Mint to resume temporarily the coinage of 20 cent pieces.

Whilet I fully appreciate the arguments adduced in your despatch I feel that the Chinese Government might with some

justice resent my interference in a matter of this kind and I regret that I do not see my way to intervene in the sense des- ired by you without instructions from Sir Edward Grey to whom

I shall forward copies of this correspondence.

I have etc.

sa/ .G.Max Müller.