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TOKYO DESPATCH TO PEKING OF JUNE 1ạt 1918.
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Copy of Despatch from Hong Kong to Tokyo.
CONFIDENTIAL
Government House
Hong Kong.
May 21st 1918
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With reference to Your Excellancy's Memorandum of the lat April covering a copy of a Despatch addressed by Your Excellency to the Governor of Singapore on the lat April on the subject of Japanese interests in the tin fields of Yunnan, I have the honour to inform you that I have recently learned from a mining expert who has just returned from Yunnan that an offer identical with that described in your Despatch was made to the Banque de l'Indo Chine who however refused to entertain it.
I am informed that the tin mines in question consist of alluvial deposits which are worked by coolies who are entire- ly independent and care nothing for arrangements arrived at by officials. The deposits are described as poor and such as would not be worked in England or other countries which do not possess a large supply of cheap labour. The only way to obtain control would be to go into partnership with the men who control coolies.
The Japanese Mission referred to in är Alstan's espatch to the Foreign Office of the 2nd July 1917, copy of which was I believe sent to Your Excellency failed to reach the mines owing to the opposition of the coolies.
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His Excellency.
The British Ambassador, Tokyo.
(Signed) T.H.iday,
Governor etc.