Hong Kong
No. 10390 A
DOMESTIC.
10390 A
Rec'd May 14th
97
Office or Individual.
(Subject.)
7.0
1897
West River:
the May
est previous Paper.
15378/97
Sends copy of agreement recently signed at
Peking
containing special article providing for opening of West River to Foreign Trade.
(Minutes.)
My Lord Selborne
Treaty may
I do not think the request that the
be kept confidential for the present
implies that it is not to be communicated to the
Law Officers. Anyhow I think we
might inform him in an
Secret Despatch that an
Agreement has recently
been signed at Peking respecting the Burma-China
frontier which contains a special article providing
for
the opening of the West River to trade. And send copy of the Article.
WB & 3.(73)—73439-~1000-11-AB
Next subsequent Paper.
10820
Lord Salisbury has requested that
Agreement should be kept strictly confidential. T.C.M. 15.5.97. FO for the present.
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