Inclosure 1 in No. 1,
C. O.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)
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Sir J. Jordan to Tong Shoa-yi.
Dear Mr. Tong,
Peking, June 13, 1908. YOU will remember that you approached me on the subject of a settlement of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's case, and that, after seeing Major Nathan, I wrote to you on the 4th May, expressing my readiness to promote an amicable adjustment on the condition that work on the new mine at Chen Chia Ling should in the meantime be suspended.
Mr. M. T. Liang has been appointed by the Wai-wu Pu, and I have appointed Mr. Campbell to negotiate the matter, and they are ready to begin the discussion as soon as the condition I made is fulfilled.
Mr. Campbell, who has visited the new mine, tells me that it is in full operation, and Mr. Liang, who has been asked to have the work stopped, informed me last night that the Viceroy Yang refuses to issue the necessary orders.
The new mine should be stopped in any case, and I wish to avoid bringing the matter before the Wai-wu Pu on account of the negotiations initiated by yourself. I had assumed that the condition mentioned in my letter of the 4th May was accepted by you, and before taking any further step I should be glad if you could see your way to arranging for a cessation of the work at Chen Chia Ling pending the issue of the discussion for a settlement.
Yours, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
P.S.--Since writing the above, I learn that the people who are mining at Chen Chia Ling are starting work on another mine at Ma Chia Kou. I have only to repeat that under any circumstances, negotiations or no negotiations, these mines must be stopped working.
J. N. J.
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Sir,
No. 1.
Admiralty to Foreign Office.--(Received July 22.)
[July 22.]
SECTION 1.
Admiralty, July 21, 1908. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th instant, forwarding a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, on the subject of the navigation of Poyang Lake by His Majesty's ships, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that they concur in Sir J. Jordan's view that, before one of His Majesty's ships again proceeds to the lake, a verbal intimation of the proposed visit should be given to the Chinese Taotai through His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang.
I am,
&c.
The Commander-in-chief, China, has already issued orders accordingly,
(Signed) C. I. THOMAS.
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Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Memorandum communicated by Sir J. Jordan to Wai-wu Pu.
ON the 19th May Sir John Jordan was informed at the Wai-wu Pu that his Excellency Liang Ju-hao was appointed to negotiate a settlement of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's case. At the same time Sir John intimated to the Wai-wu Pu that he had appointed Mr. Campbell as his delegate for the same purpose.
These appointments resulted from a suggestion made to Sir John Jordan early in May by his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi, and which was accepted by Sir John, on the condition, stated in writing, that the workings of the Lanchow Company at Chen Chia Ling should be stopped pending the negotiations between his Excellency Liang Ju-hao and Mr. Campbell,
Mr. Campbell visited Chen Chia Ling on the 30th May and saw that the Lanchow Company's works were in full operation and had not been stopped, and I am now informed that the same Company is opening a mine at Ma Chia Kou, a place included in the deed of transfer executed by his Excellency Cheng Yen-mou.
Sir John Jordan desires to state that negotiations for an amicable settlement are not possible while the workings of the Lanchow Company in the places covered by the deed of transfer are permitted, and he therefore requests the Wai-wu Pu to take the necessary steps for the cessation of those workings pending the negotiations for a settlement, which he undertakes to press forward as quickly as possible.
June 17, 1908.