CHINA.
PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM:
Sir J.Jordan (Pekin) Jamary 27th, 1920.
D.11.40 a.m., January 27th, 1920.
R. 1.15 p.m., January 28th, 1920.
A
No.44.
Very Urgent.
POLITICAL.
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Your telegram No.29.
and when I had
I saw Acting Foreign Minister;
spoken to him in the sense of your instructions, he affir-
med Central Government was powerless and disclaimed all
responsibility on theirpart for action taken by Canton
Government at Macao. He consented however to telegraph to
Authorities at Canton informing them of representations
I had made at Wai-wu-pu under your instructions and advising non-aggressive attitude. He urged necessity of
cessation of work but said that settlement by arbitratio and delimitation of boundaries were alike impracticable
in view of relations at present existing between North
and South. He contended that work which was being done was a violation of an arrangement come to in Hongkong
on close of Conference 1909. I have since learned from Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires that work has been stopped.
Confidential. Minister from his personal knowledge described Macao as a plague spot on confines of China which lived on opium smuggling and gambling and
contrasted