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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
19007
RECE
&
CONFIDENTIAL.
REG 16 JUN II
[April 19.]
SECTION 2.
[14514]
No. 1.
In a Office to Foreign Office.-(Received April 19.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of Viscount Morley, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of a telegram from the Viceroy, dated the 16th April, regarding the violation of the Burmah-China frontier by the Chinese.
India Office, April 18, 1911.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Government of India to Viscount Marley.
April 16, 1911.
(Telegraphic.) P.
CHEFANG. Please refer to our telegram dated the 28th ultimo. Burmah Government telegraphed 12th instant to following effect :-
Apart from a few who have surrendered, nearly all Sinwas from Powang are reported by superintendent, Northern Shan States, to have gone across into China; Chinese apparently are not strong enough to attack them in the strongly stockaded position which they have taken up at Pangwai, Mong Pan. Langling Ting has returned to Hpawngsheng Since the Hpawngsheng fight no further hostilities have taken place in this locality; all stockades on our side have either been pulled down by men surrendering or have been destroyed by assistant commandant, military police. Feud is reported by superintendent to be an entirely local one against Myosa of Powang, but there is nothing to seize in compensation as all cattle and grain have been taken over border by Sinwas. So long as Sinwas are stockaded in China, superintendent states that retaliation on British lalaungs and Marus will be provoked if empty houses are burnt Patrol of border is all that he can do for the present.
"It is also reported by superintendent that a Kachin lunatic, who announced himself to be King of the Kachins, aud who was receiving constant visits from Kachins of China, Mong Mit, aud North Shan States, has caused a separate disturbance on Loi Song Hill in Mong Ko Circle. He had 100 men with guns and opened fire on our escort, when his village was visited on the 4th instant, on his refusing to come in. Our escort returned the fire; the village was burnt, five Kachins wounded, and eleven (including the luuatic shot dead. Wounds from cross-bow arrows were received by two sepoys. This unrest will, superintendent anticipates, be brought to an end by the lunatic's death; but there were two Chefang Kachins among the men shot, and as it is uncertain what will be the effect on these Kachins on death of lunatic, fifty more military police are being taken up from Lashio by superintendent. British consul at Tengyueh, who is being furnished with substance of these reports, is being asked to move Chinese authorities to take steps at once for pacification of border and for punishment of Sinwa Kachins who are now stockaded at Pangwai."
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