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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received December 26.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and is directed to forward herewith, for the information of Sir E. Grey, a copy of a telegram, dated the 24th instant, addressed by the Governor-General of India to His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking and repeated to the Government of Burmah and to this Office, and of certain telegraphic correspondence received from India by mail of the 29th ultimo on the subject of the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway project,
India Office, December 28, 1906.
(Telegraphic.) P.
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Government of India to Sir J. Jordan.
December 24, 1906. REFERRING to your telegram to British Consul at Tengyueh, dated the 4th December, on the subject of railway reconnaissance beyond Tengyueh, the Govern- ment of Burmah still recommends, if the Consul seos no objection, that the survey party as reduced should be dispatched. The Government of India, in view of the attitude of the Governor-General of Yunnan and of the Taotai, who has received orders to stop Lilley, desires to have your advice before allowing the survey party to cross the frontier on the 1st January, as proposed.
(Repeated to the Burmah Government and India Office.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Government of Burmah to Government of India.
(Telegraphic.) P.
RECONNAISSANCE towards Tali.
November 20, 1906.
Telegram received from Wilkinson on the 18th November (addressed to His Majesty's Representative at Peking) stating, in continuation of his immediately preceding telegram, that the Yunnan Government were informed by the Wai-wu Pu on the 12th November that in any negotiations they intend to argue by the Treaty,
A telegram of the 18th November from the Consul at Tengyueh quotes one from the Consul General at Yunuan to the following effect :---
"Regarding your telegram of the 15th November, the Wai-wu Pa have been requested, by telegram on the 2nd November, by the Government of Yunnan to refuse reconnaissance. Any communication you may make to the Taotai will be repeated to the Governor-General, and the Taotai will be instructed by him to oppose. Treaty gives Lilley right to travel with as many Englishmen as he may care to take, and if reconnaissance is to be made while the question of the railway is in abeyance, he and his party should provide themselves individually with passports from Tengyuel Consulate. Unless the Taotai could be induced by the appointment of a Deputy to waive objections to the survey, the appointment of a Deputy is not necessary. But the Government of Burmah should be informed. This has not been communicated by telegram to Peking.
"A communication to the above effect has already been made to Taotai. Private. Matters are not altered by the above. It is really advisable to appoint a Deputy."
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