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SIR,
(Confidential.)
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No. 58A.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received October 12, 1901.)
Foreign Office, October 11, 1901. I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you the accom- General Officer Commanding, China, panying copies of telegraphic correspondence Tel. 398, September 28, 1901.
between the Secretary of State for India and the General Officer Commanding in China relative to the statement contained in Major- General Creagh's telegram of September 28, that Chinamen trained in the Chinese Regiment
To General Officer Commanding, China, Tel. No. 220, October 7.
From General Officer Commanding,
China, Tel. No. 404, October 9.
at Wei-Hai-Wei are now serving with the Chinese troops in Chihli.
From the General Officer Commanding's telegram of October 9th, it would appear that to an appreciable extent the Chinese Regiment is a school of instruction for Chinamen, who may, in conceivable circumstances, become leaders of their own countrymen against British troops; and Lord Lansdowne would suggest, for Mr. Secretary Chamberlain's consideration, that it might be desirable to obtain a report from His Majesty's Commissioner at Wei-Hai-Wei as to the number of men who have left the regiment, with any information available as to what has become of
I am, &c.,
them.
FRANCIS BERTIE.
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Enclosure 3 in No. 58A.
No. 15.-From GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING, China Expedition, 9th October, 1901.
404. Your telegram, 8th October, 220. Information from Pereira ends after the words "Population dead." It is a fact that officer commanding General Ma Yukun's artillery, now at Paoting fu, was in Chinese Regiment. Chinese state that some of men now in Chinese military force formerly in Chinese Regiment. It is known that deserters from Chinese Regiment very large, and the Chinese openly speak of the Chinese Regiment as a good school of instruction.
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No. 59.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to COMMISSIONER SIR A. F, DORWARD. [Answered by No. 72.] (No. 30.)
Downing Street, October 11, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to transmit, for your consideration, an extract* from a letter from the Admiralty, which was received when the draft of the Order in Council for the administration of the leased territories at Wei-hai-wei was under consideration.
2. It is not now necessary to trouble you with the rest of this letter, but I should be glad to be informed whether the quarries referred to in the enclosed extract are the property of private persons or of Government; and, if the latter, how far the wishes of the Lords Commissioners can be complied with.
3. I regret that, owing to an oversight, this question was not submitted to you at an earlier date.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
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(No. 398.) (Telegraphic.)
Enclosure 1 in No. 58A.
Major-General CREAGH to LORD G. HAMILTON. (Communicated by India Office, September 29.)
Tien-tsin, September 28, 1901. Major Pereira writes from Hsianfu, dated the 30th August, stating that Tung Fu Hsiang only nominally disgraced, being really very powerful. Prince Tuan is at Ningsha in constant communication with former. Junglu and Luchuanlin in chief power at Court. Preparations have been made for Court's departure on the 6th October.
Worst of famine over. Reported 400 deaths daily; 30 per cent. of population dead.
Chinese troops in Chihli have [? some] modern artillery and plenty ammunition, which is still being manufactured and imported. Requisite officers have been trained in the Chinese regiments at Wei-Hai-Wei.
All Boxers and robbers are pardoned, provided that they come in with arms, and enlist. There has been no organized resistance against taxation [group unde- cypherable]. Very considerable tracts of North-eastern Shanhaikwan outside the wall in possession of brigands.
Enclosure 2 in No. 58A.
No. 9. From SECRETARY OF STATE to GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING, China Expedition, 7th October, 1901.
No. 220. Your telegram of 28th September, No. 398. Please specify items information derived from Pereira and those derived from other sources. Is it a fact that many Chinamen fit to command troops have served in, and left, Chinese Regiment?
No. 59A.
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN to COMMISSIONER SIR A. DORWARD.
SIR,
(Secret.)
[Answered by No. 71.]
Downing Street, October 18, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to transmit a copy of a lettert which has been received from the Foreign Office, enclosing telegraphic correspondence relating to reported desertions from the Chinese Regiment to the military forces of the Chinese Government.
2. I shall be glad if you will furnish me at your early convenience with the report asked for by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE (HONG KONG) to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received October 24, 1901.)
(No. 373.)
SIR,
[Answered by No. 62.]
Government House, Hong Kong, September 18, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 255, of the 2nd ultimo, and to inform you that the Acting Chief Justice has drawn attention
to the fact that the term "Supreme Court" in Part I., Section 2, of the Wei-hai-wei
• Paragraph 4 of No. 1.
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