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T'engyueh Railways, for the purpose of collecting subscriptions. He will carry with him scrip to each port in the Eastern and Southern Seas, where he will invite Chinese merchants to subscribe the amounts of the shares, and when these are collected he will return to Yunnan to commence work.
Now the most flourishing of all ports in the Southern Seas is Singapore, and Singapore is a British possession.
It becomes therefore the duty of the Governor General to write to the Consul General and request him to be good enough to communicate with the Governor General of Singapore, asking His Excellency to give instructions to the local authorities to carefully look after Miao taot'ai on his arrival within the jurisdiction.
Expressing an earnest hope that all this may be done, the Governor General requests the favour of a reply.
A necessary communication.
Dated Kuang-hsu 32. 7. 4 (August 23rd, 1906).
Translated August 26th,
(Signed)
W. H. Wilkinson.