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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

Rec? R18 JU 1|

[June 20.]

SECTION 1.

[24130]

No. 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir F. Campbell.-(Received June 20.)

My dear Campbell,

Peking, May 31, 1911. MR. RUMBOLD sent me some little time ago the papers which you had forwarded to Sir Claude MacDonald regarding the vexed question of Japanese discrimination in Manchuria. Your letter on the subject seems to have crossed my despatch No. 159 of the 18th April to the Foreign Office, and I do not think that I can usefully add anything to the observations of Willis and Horne.

The only arrangement which will effectually remove the existing suspicions that all is not right in Manchuria is, as Mr. Rumbold indicates, the assimilation of the customs régime at Dairen to that in force at Tsingtao. But, so far as I can ascertain, no negotiations are going on here for the abolition of the free area. At any rate, Aglen, the Acting Inspector-General of Customs, recently told me that he had no information on the subject.

Yours sincerely,

J. N. JORDAN.

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