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REGE 13 JAN 11
[December 7.]
SECTION 1.
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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.--(Received December 7.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of the Earl of Crewe, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of a telegram from the Viceroy, dated the 5th December, relative to the Pien-ma expedition.
India Office, December 6, 1910.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Government of India to the Earl of Crewe.
(Telegraphic.) P.
December 5, 1910. EXPEDITION to Pien-ma. Please refer to my telegram dated the 28th ultimo. Consul at Teng-yuch telegraphed on the 28th ultimo to Burmah Government as follows:-
"Urgent telegram from Viceroy of Yunnan, conveying instructions to proceed to Pien-ma without delay, was received yesterday by the Paoshan magistrate of Yung- Chang-Fu. The magistrate, with a small escort, exact number of which I cannot ascertain, left Yung-Chang-Fu this morning. I met this officer, it will be remembered, last spring during my journey. He visited Pien-ma on that occasion, and presented local headmen with badges of office. His reputation is unusually good, and the impression he created was, I believe, a favourable one.”
(Repeated to His Majesty's Minister, Peking.)
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