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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[2882]
No. 1.
[January 24.]
SECTION 1.
2B 1
Mr. Lew Yuk-Lin to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received January 24.)
Chinese Legation, January 24, 1911.
Your Excellency,
I HAVE the honour to enclose in translation a copy of a telegram which I received yesterday from the Wai-wu Pu in Peking regarding the frontier question between Yunnan and Burmah, and the movement of British troops at or near the place in question.
As instructed, I shall have the honour of waiting upon your Excellency in regard to the matter on whatever carly day your Excellency may intimate that it will suit your convenience to receive me.
LEW YUK-LIN.
I have, &c.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Translation of telegram from Wai-wu Pu dated January 22, 1911. REGARDING the question of the northern boundary between Burmalı and Yunnan, this department has received from the Viceroy of Yünnan a telegram, stating that Britith troops were starting by two different routes to arrive at Pien Ma with the intention of being stationed there for a long time. They were forcing the different native tribes of Pai Lai to submit, and had proclaimed that all the country to the west of Kao Li Kung was British territory.
Now Pien Ma, situated on the hither side of the Small Rivert undoubtedly belongs to China. It is administered by our native hereditary ruler.
This matter has long been under discussion and before settlement British troops have marched across the frontier.
This department yesterday communicated with the British Minister in Peking and suggested that you should discuss the essentials of this question with the British Foreign Office and arrive at a definitive settlement.
Besides forwarding you copies of all the documents concerning this matter, you are requested first to ask for information of the British Foreign Office, and to request that if the troops have actually been sent they should be at once recalled so as to facilitate a friendly settlement of the case.
This is the line of frontier we claim.
† Ngaw Chang Kha or Hsiao Chang on the maps.
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