CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 338

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No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.

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Rece REGE 22 AUG 11

[July 28.]

SECTION 1.

(No. 113.)

(Telegraphic.) R.

Foreign Office, July 28, 1911. YOUR telegrams Nos. 167 and 168 of the 21st and 25th July: Opium. You might take an opportunity, if you see no objection, of commenting strongly on the Viceroy's disregard of the undertaking given to His Majesty's Government by the Chinese Government to article 7 of the agreement, and it might be well that latter should be informed that His Majesty's Government view with extreme concern this early infraction of an agreement in which their good-will and sympathy were conspicuously manifested, and consider that China's good faith and honour are involved in its speedy reparation,

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