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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
RECP R18 JUL 1|
[July 3.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
SECTION 2.
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(No. 250.) Sir,
No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 3.)
Peking, June 16, 1911. WITH reference to my despatch No. 243 of the 13th instant, I have the honour to report that his Excellency Lu Chêng-hsiang is leaving for Europe by the Siberian mail of the 20th instant. He is attended by a staff of four officials, the principle of whom is Liu Ching-jen, who served for some years in the Chinese Legation at St. Petersburgh and has recently been taotai in Harbin.
His Excellency tells me that the Chinese Minister in St. Petersburgh will be associated with him in the negotiations, which, he states, will be confined to Russian treaty rights in Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan and deal mainly with the commercial side of the question, frontier matters being reserved for future consideration.
As regards consular representation, he indicated his intention of securing a reciprocal arrangement under which Chinese consuls should be stationed in Siberia at important points along the frontier. He considered the presence of a consul at the single port of Vladivostock as quite inadequate for the requirements of the situation.
Mr. Lu Chêng-hsiang has spent some twenty years of his life on foreign service, ten of which were passed in St. Petersburgh. He is married to a foreign lady who accompanies him on his mission, and he is a fluent speaker of French, English, and Russian.
I have, &c.
J. N. JORDAN,
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