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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
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[June 28)]
SECTION 127
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.--(Received June 28.)
WITH reference to correspondence ending with your letter of the 10th June,
India Office, June 27, 1911. 1911, regarding the report of His Majesty's consul at Tengyuch on the Burmah- China frontier for the open season, 1910-11, I am directed to enclose, for submission to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a letter from the Government of India on the subject.*
As regards the questions raised in paragraph 2 of the Government of India's letter, the Earl of Crewe understands from the Foreign Office despatch to Mr. Rose, No. 1, dated the 10th June, 1911, copy of which was enclosed in your letter of the same date, that it is not considered practicable to invest His Majesty's consul at Tengyuch with full criminal jurisdiction, as proposed by the Burmah Government. But his Lordship would suggest, for Sir E. Grey's consideration, that His Majesty's Minister at Peking might be instructed, if he sees no objection, to endeavour to obtain the assent of the Chinese Government to the appointment of arbitrators to deal with civil and matrimonial suits on the frontier, as recommended in paragraph 6 of the Burmah Government's letter of the 18th April, 1911.
I am to add that Lord Crewe fully associates himself with the commendation expressed by the Governments of India and Burmah of the services rendered by Mr. Rose during his tenure of the Tengyuch Consulate.
am, &c.
* Not printed,
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R. RITCHIE.