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(No. 351.) Sir,
No. 1.
[December 29.]
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Sir J. Jordan to Mr. Balfour. (Received December 29.) REG 8 FEB 181
Peking, November 3, 1917. I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copies of correspondence with the Wai-chino Pu on the subject of the closing of six provinces to the import of Indian opium.
(Copy to India.)
I have, &c.
J. N. JORDAN.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Wai-chiao Pu to Sir J. Jordan.
(Translation.) Sir,
Peking, October 16, 1917. WITH reference to joint inspections for opium cultivation carried out this year, I had the bonour to communicate with Mr. Alston, as the inspections of Kiangsi, Kuangtung, Kueichow, Kiangsu, and Shensi were completed and the poppy found to be entirely eradicated.
As regards the remaining province of Yunnan, the Wai-chiac Pu received a telegram during May last from the Military Governor of that province, stating that he had instructed the Tengyueh and Pu-Erh Taoyius to proceed with Mr. Eastes, consul at Tengyuel, who was deputed for the purpose by the British Minister, to carry out the inspection as far as Seumao. On the 1st May, the Governor continued, Mr. Tours, consul at lebang, bad also entered the province from Kueichow and carried out an inspection as far as Lo-Ping in company with Chan Ping-chung, the deputy sent by the I-tung Circuit. Both these parties reported that not a head of poppy was to be seen in the country traversed by them. Mr. Tours, at the time of the Governor's telegram, was proposing to go by way of Shih Ch'in to inspect the districts under Linhsien, Kaihsien, and Kuanghaien.
As the inspection of the whole province had not been completed, the above telegram was not communicated to you at the time. But a further report has now been received from the special Foreign Affairs' deputy for the province, in which he states that all poppy plants have been completely eradicated in the districts under their jurisdiction inspected by the Tengyueh and Pu-Erh Taoyine in company with Mr. Tours, and that a statement to this effect has been put in by them as proof.
I accordingly have the honour to communicate the above reports for your information, and to request that I may be furnished with a copy of the reports which have no doubt been supplied in detail by Messrs. Eastes and Tours on the completion of the investigation in Yunnan, to enable me to check the statements above mentioned.
Compliments.
(For the Minister for Foreign Affairs), KAO ERH-CH'IEN.
Sir,
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Wai-chiao Pu.
Peking, October 19, 1917.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 16th October, communi- eating reports from the deputies appointed to carry out the joint inspection of opium cultivation and import of native opium in Eastern and Western Yüunan, and requesting me to furnish you with a copy of the reports supplied by Messrs. Eastes and Tours, the British delegates.
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