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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.- (Received December 12.)
Peking, December 12, 1909.
(No. 193.) (Telegraphic.) P. MACAO. The Wai-wu Pu have confirmed their statement to me, reported in my immediately preceding telegram, by formally announcing to the Portuguese chargé d'affaires China's refusal to submit the question to arbitration.
I have now received the following report from Canton respecting the Dom João incident:-
"It is reported that the occupants of a Chinese juuk, being pursued by one of Admiral Li's cruisers which was searching for pirates, fled for refuge on shore. The Chinese troops followed and arrested the fugitives.
"The ships which the Chinese man-of-war carried away at the time are stated to have now been returned.
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The Chinese view is that the cruiser was justified in landing men to carry out the pursuit which had started on water, but they declare that otherwise, so long as the boundaries in dispute have not been delimitated, Dom João must be considered as outside the jurisdiction of either China or Portugal."
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