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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
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RECO REGP 14 JAN 13
Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan. (No. 320.) Sir,
Foreign Office, November 21; 1012, IN the last paragraph of your despatch No. 414 of the 15th ultimo you state that the foreign representatives at Peking are awaiting special instructions from their Governments before deciding upon the line to be adopted with respect to the expenses incurred in guarding the railway line from Peking to Shanhai Kuan.
It appears to me advisable that the Powers should follow in this matter the precedent of 1900, when the expenses arising out of the military measures adopted for the protection of foreigners were included in the indemnity demanded from the Chinese Government. I should therefore be glad to receive your observations as to whether a surn, representing the expenses incurred in guarding the line and other expenses arising out of the military measures taken for the protection of foreigners in China since the outbreak of the revolution, should not be included in the claim which will eventually be presented to the Chinese Government.
If you concur in the advisability of adopting this course, I would propose to invite the various departments of His Majesty's Government to furnish me with a statement of the expenses which have been incurred by them respectively in connection with the measures adopted. This statement would then be transmitted to you for consideration in the light of the instructions sent to your colleagues.
I am, &c.
E. GREY.
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