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# SOUTH-WEST CHINA
## CONFIDENTIAL
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[August 12 6 SEP 04]
### SECTION 1.
No. 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-Received August 12.
India Office, August 11, 1904.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of the Marquess of Lansdowne, the inclosed papers, which have been received unofficially from India, regarding irregularities in the admission of salt from Burmah into Yunnan.
I have, &c.
(Signed) A. GODLEY.
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### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Government of Burmah to Government of India.
Rangoon, May 24, 1904.
IN continuation of this Office letter, dated the 5th April, 1904, I am directed to submit, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a letter, dated the 22nd March, 1904, from Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Yunnan and Kueichou, forwarding a copy of a despatch addressed by him to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, suggesting a possible solution of the salt question along the border.
(Confidential.)
### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Consul-General Wilkinson to Government of Burmah,
March 22, 1904.
WITH reference to the Memorandum on frontier affairs sent to you by Mr. Litton on the 20th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister, suggesting a possible solution of the salt question along the border.
### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.
March 21, 1904.
I HAVE the honour to forward, in original, an interesting Memorandum by Mr. Litton on the affairs of the Tengyueh-Burmah frontier.
Mr. Litton sent me at the same time a copy of the despatch which he had addressed to the Taotai on the subject of the extortions and malversation of the l-kin runners and the abuses prevailing at the new salt collectorate. I am writing myself to the Governor-General, drawing his attention to the state of things denounced by Mr. Litton, and asking him to consider earnestly the measures that should be taken to remedy these evils.
As far as the salt question is concerned, I think that the best solution would be an arrangement between the Governments of Great Britain and China (after consultation with the Provincial Governments of Burmah and Yunnan), whereby salt could be imported, under certain conditions, from Burmah into the adjoining Sub-prefectures of Yunnan—as Tengyueh, Lungling, Chen-pien, Ssumao. The salt, I would suggest, should be sold direct by the Government of Burmah to the delegates of the Yunnan Salt Commissioner, all other "sea salt" being, as heretofore, contraband. The quantity to be sold each year should be a minimum of so many thousand piculs. The price for purchase (from Burmah) and sale (to consumers)
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,j_).
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
3:035
483
[August 12 6 SEF 04)
SECTION 1.
No. 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-Received August 12.)
India Office, August 11, 1904.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward, for the information of the Marquess of Lansdowne, the inclosed papers, which have been received unofficially from India, regarding irregularities in the admission of salt from Burmah into Yunnan.
I have, &c.
(Signed) A. GODLEY.
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Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Government of Burmah to Government of India.
Rangoon, May 24, 1904. IN continuation of this Office letter, dated the 5th April, 1904, I am directed to submit, for the information of the Government of India, à copy of a letter, dated the 22nd March, 1904, from Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, His Britannic Majesty's Consul- General for Yunnan and Kueichou, forwarding a copy of a despatch addressed by him to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, suggesting a possible solution of the salt question along the border.
(Confidential.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Consul-General Wilkinson to Government of Burmah,
March 22, 1904.
WITH reference to the Memorandum on frontier affairs sent to you by Mr. Litton on the 20th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister, suggesting a possible solution of the salt question along the border.
Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Selow.
March 21, 1904.
I HAVE the honour to forward, in original, an interesting Memorandum by Mr. Litton on the affairs of the Tengyueh-Burmah frontier.
Mr. Litton sent me at the same time a copy of the despatch which he had addressed to the Taotai on the subject of the extortions and malversation of the l-kin runners and the abuses prevailing at the new salt collectorate. I am writing myself to the Governor-General, drawing his attention to the state of things denounced by Mr. Litton, and asking him to consider earnestly the measures that should be taken to remedy these evils.
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As far as the salt question is concerned, I think that the best solution would be an arrangement between the Governments of Great Britain and China (after consul- tation with the Provincial Governments of Burmah and Yunnan), whereby salt" could be imported, under certain conditions, from Burmah into the adjoining Sub-prefectures of Yunnan-as Tengyueb-Lungling, Chen-pien, Ssumao. The salt, I would suggest, should be sold direct by the Government of Burmah to the delegates of the Yunnan Salt Commissioner, all other "sea salt being, as heretofore, contraband The quantity to be sold each year should be a minimum of so many thousand piculs. The price for purchase (from Burmah) and sale (to consumers)
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