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Buch are the incidents which have come to my notice
in the course of the current yeɛr, and the for the pre-
sent the matter rests. I have heard nothing whatever of
any attemnt to threaten the mater-supply of liacao.
Throughout the correspondence Mr. #1lton and myself,
altough charged with Portuguese interests ad interim,
have merely acted as transmitters of the statements and
views of the Colonial Government - the Chinese versions
thereof being prepared by the Interpreter's Department
in Macao. I am given, however, to understand that in
the course of this month a Consul-General will arrive to
take up the duties of Portuguese representative.
The resuscitation of the Boundary Commission has
undoubtedly led the Provincial Government to take a more
than ordinary interest in questions of this kind, and the
energetic personality of the Civil Governor may have in-
fused vigour into the correspondence, but I have so far
no reason to suppose that a policy of veiled coercion is
contemplated,
Should the Portuguese Legation take up the question
with the Central Government, it might usefully point out
that the local authorities are so anxious to see that
Treaty provisions as to residence 'inland' on the part
of foreign traders are observed, attention might well
be devoted to the Japanese commercial invasion of the
province.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant
(sd) J. W. Jamieson
Consul-General.