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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[571]
No. 1.
January 13.]
SECTION 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office to Colonial Office.
Foreign Office, January 13, 1911. WITH reference to your letter of the 12th ultimo, forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong, relative to the reopening of the mint at Canton for the coinage of 20-cent pieces, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to forward to you herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, enclosing a copy of correspondence on the subject between Sir F. May and Mr. Max Müller, who was till recently in charge of "His Majesty's Legation.
It will be seen that Mr. Max Müller expressed his inability to intervene in the matter in the sense desired by Sir F. May without instructions from this department, and, in view of the considerations set forth in Sir J. Jordan's covering despatch, Sir E. Grey proposes, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to approve Mr. Max Müller's attitude, and to direct Sir J. Jordan to take no action in
I am, &c.
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* Sir J. Jordan, No. 455, December 15, 1910.
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