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No. 92.
THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE to SIR E. SATOW.
(Sent 4 p.m., April 6, 1902.)
TELEGRAM.
Your telegram, No. 79 [of 4th April].*
Reduction mentioned has practically been decided on.
You might consult Yuan Shi Kai as to the disposal of the men.
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German officer, Von Hanneken, who supervised the construction of the old Chinese forts at Wei-hai-wei.
The contraversion of this statement, forwarded "as a fact" by Major-General Creagh, would appear to cast some doubt as to the value of other hearsay evidence submitted by him regarding the Chinese Regiment.
I have, &c.,
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No. 96.
J. H. COWAN,
Major, Royal Engineers,
Acting Commissioner.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TLC.O. 882
سلنس سلسلسا
SIR,
略
No. 93.
COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE.
Downing Street, April 9, 1902. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo,† suggesting that the lands and buildings now in the posses- sion of the Military Authorities at Wei-hai-Wei would be most conveniently handed over to the civil administration on the final withdrawal of the force of not less than 300 Officers and men which it has been decided shall be kept at Wei-hai-Wei for twelve months.
2. You add that this arrangement need not interfere with the transfer, prior to that date, of any War Department property that could be made available, which may be required for the immediate use of the civil administration.
3. I am to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Brodrick that on the under- standing set forth in the foregoing paragraph, Mr. Chamberlain agrees to this pro posal; and that the Commissioner will be informed accordingly.
ACTING COMMISSIONER COWAN to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 14.) SIR,
یو
(Received June 9, 1902.) [Answered by No. 124.]
Wei-hai-wei, May 1, 1902.
I BEG to forward herewith an Administrative Report on the dependency of Wei-hai-wei, which has been prepared by Mr. G. T. Hare, the Assistant Commis- sioner here, and deals with its present condition and possible future in a very ex- haustive manner.
The concluding remarks of this report, which were of a confidential nature, were forwarded to you last mail.*
I have, &c.,
J. H. COWAN,
Major, Royal Engineers,
Enclosure in No. 96.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
SIR,
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to ACTING COMMISSIONER COWAN. (No. 11.)
SIR,
Downing Street, April 9, 1902. I HAVE the honour to forward, for your information, a copy of correspondencet with the Secretary of State for War, relative to the transfer to the Government of Wei-hai-Wei of the lands and buildings in the dependency, which are now vested in the Military Authorities.
I have, &c.,
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No. 95.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
ACTING-COMMISSIONER COWAN to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received May 29, 1902.)
SIR,
Wei-hai-wei, April 18, 1902. WITH reference to your despatch, Wei-hai-wei, Secret, of 18th October last,g enclosing correspondence relating to Chinese Regiment, I have the honour to report with reference to the telegram, No. 404, of 9th October, 1901, from Major-General Creagh, in which it is stated, "It is a fact that Officer Commanding General Ma Yukun's Artillery now at Paoting-fu, was in Chinese Regiment," that I have now ascertained through Colonel Bower at Peking that the Officer Commanding General Ma's Artillery is over 60 years old, and has been uninterruptedly in these regions as an Artillery Officer for 25 years, some of his training having been obtained under a
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* No. 91.
† No. 89.
Nos. 89 and 93.
Acting Commissioner,
Mr. G. T. HARE to Acting Commissioner CoWAN.
Wei-hai-wei, April 15, 1902.
I HAVE the honour to forward herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, an administrative report on the leased territories of Wei-hai-wei since the inauguration of British rule,
2. No administrative report has been compiled since the settlement was leased from China, and the absence of records and statistics (due to the scanty clerical staff employed and to the constant shifting of the many naval and military officers and others who have been employed as civil servants) makes it difficult to go minutely into the details of the Administration during the last three and a-half years.
3. It will appear from this report that the view I have formed of the value of this leased territory to Great Britain is not a high one, but it is submitted that the cquelusions arrived at are borne out by the facts and corroborated by the enquiries made by me amongst European and Chinese traders and others in Shanghai, North China, and locally.
4. It may be well to add that I visited this Settlement in 1900, in company with Sir Frank Swettenham, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Straits Settlements, and made many enquiries then into the circumstances of the new Colony, and that I now find that the first impressions I then formed have been confirmed by practical experi- ence during the time I have been acting here as Assistant British Commissioner.
I have, &c.,
G. T. HARE,
Secretary, Chinese Affairs,
Federated Malay States. Acting Assistant British Commissioner, Wci-hai-wei.
Major Cowan,
Royal Engineers,
Ilis Britannic Majesty's Acting Commissioner, Wei-hai-wei.
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