xii
Subject,
Page.
Serial No.
From or to whom.
Despatch
Data.
No, ko.
1902.
85
Commis- Acting.
sioner Cowan.
Secret
January 23 (Rec. Mar. 6)
Charges against the Chinese Regiment. Transmita copy of correspondence with the Chief Staff Officer, China Field Force; deprecates any proposal to disband the Regiment or to reduce its members.
xiii
Bubject.
Page.
1902.
67
04
To Acting-Commis-
sioner Cowan.
11
April 9
Handing over of Lands and Buildings by the Military to the Civil Authori- ties. Transmits copies of Nos. 89 and 93
74
A
86
To Treasury
March 11
British Dollar as Legal Tender. Transmita, with remarks, copy of No. 74; proposes to instruct the Commissoner to report further.
71
95
Acting
Commis- sioner Cowan.
Secret
April 18 (Rec. May 29.)
Chinese Jurisdiction in the Walled City.
87
To Acting-Conimis-
aloner Cowan.
Conf. dential.
March 12
Transmits, in reply to No. 75, copy of No. 82; considers the question should be deferred until the arrival of Mr. Lockhart.
72
96
Ditto
14
May 1 (Rec. June 9.)
88 To Foreign Office...
March 12
Concurs in views expressed in No. 82
and conveys purport of No. 87.
72
97
Commissioner Lock-
hart.
Confi- dential, 23.
May 15 (Rec. June 23.)
89
War Office...
March 27
90
Foreign Office
March 29
Handing over of Land and Buildings
by the Military to the Civil Autho ritics. Suggests that the lands and buildings now in possession of the Military Authorities at Wei-bai-Wel, would be most conveniently handed over to the Civil Administration on the final withdrawal of the troops from the island, and enquires whether the the arrangement is agreeable to Colonial Office.
Chinese Jurisdiction in the Walled
City of Wei-hai-Wei, Transmits copy of a despatch to Sir E.
Satow on the subject, approving the course he proposes to take and en- closing a copy of No. 88.
Reduction of Chinese Regiment. States, it is rumoured that the 1st Chinese Regiment will be reduced from 1,100 to 300 by March 31 next, and trusts that care will be taken that the dis- banded men do not become elements of disturbance, and that the valuable services rendered by the Regiment in the defence of Tientsin will not be lost sight of.
States that the reduction of the Regi- ment has practically been decided on, and suggests that Yuan-Shi-Kai might be consulted as to the dispoml of the
men.
Handing over of Lands and Buildings by the Military to the Civil Autho- rities.
=
91
Sir E. Batow to the Telegram
Marquess of Lans-
79.
downe.
April 4 (Received in Colonial Office, April 7.)
92
Marquess of Lans-
downe to Sir E. Batow.
Telegram
April 6
78.
72
98
Ditto
22
May 13 (Rec. July 1.)
99
To Foreign Office...
Secret
July 10
73
100
To Treasury
July 11
73
74
101
Treasury
July 14
Charges against the Chinese Regiment. Controverts one of the statements made
by Major-General Creagh, and ob serves that the incident appears to cast some doubt on the value of other evidence submitted.
Administrative Report. Forwards report by Mr. Hare on Ad- ministration since the inauguration of British rule.
Railway Construction.
74
75
Transmite copy of a letter from Mr. 106
Bridges enquiring if rights can be granted for constructing a railway from Mahto to the boundary of the Territory in the direction of Chefoo, and asking that his name may be noted as the first applicant, and submits observations.
Ordinance to provide for the Peace and Good Order of the Territories. Forwards. with remarks, draft
approval.
Railway Construction.
for
108
Transmits copy of No. 97, and enquires 109
whether His Majesty's Government
is precluded from granting the per- mission asked for,
British Dollar as Legal Tender. Enquires, with reference to No. 86, 110
whether there would be any objection to the opening of a branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at Wei-hal-Wel, and if so, whether the proposed Ordinance to declare the Mexican and British dollar legal tender in Wei-hai-Wel should be inened.
British Dollar as Legal Tender. Transmite, with remarks, copy of corre spondence with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank on the subject.
Police Force.
102
93
To War Office
April 9
Agrees to the proposal made in No. 89...
71
Commissioner Lock-
hart.
29
June 5 (Rec. July 17.)
Submits proposals
110
112
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Serial No.
From or to whom.
Dorpatch
Data.
No., c.
xiv
1902.
103
Treasury
July 21
104
Foreign Office
Confl- dential.
July 23
105
To Commissioner Telegram
July 28
Lockhart.
108
Commissioner Lock.
bart.
32
122
107
To Sir T. Jackson...
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