(No. 2.) Sir,
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Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan.
Yunnan-fu, January 16, 1907. I HAVE the honour to inclose a brief Memorandum-too brief to be styled an Intelligence Report-on Kucichow affairs.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
W. H. WILKINSON.
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of Foreign Affairs. He was told that things had somewhat quieted down, and that unless more serious news came to hand, of which the Department would inform him, Mrs. Windsor could proceed. A fortnight or so later the Department wrote to him, saying that missionaries and converts in Tu-yun, Tu-shan, and Li-po districts should keep at home as much as possible just now, and that the Department cannot accept responsibility if their advice is disregarded. Mr. Cecil-Smith, in reporting this to me, suggests that the observation was probably provoked by the refusal of the French priest in Tu-shan to return to the town from a country station where trouble is threatened. He adds that the latest reports state that things are quieter, and that Mr. Pike believes the back of the rising is broken.
(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.
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Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
Memorandum respecting Kueichow Affairs for December Quarter, 1906.
Chinese Officials.
THE Governor-Designate, Pang Hung-shu, is expected daily at Kueiyang. The Financial Commissioner, Yuan K'aiti, left some time ago for audience, and it was reported that he had died on the journey to Peking. As a matter of fact he has retired, being upwards of 80 years of age, and his post in Kneichow has been filled by the promotion of the Judicial Commissioner, Hsing-ln. The latter, who spent more than twenty years in Yünnan, has been acting as Governor of Kueichow for the past several months. The post he has vacated of Judicial Commissioner is filled by Sung-o, late Intendant of the Eastern Circuit (" Kuei-tung Tao"). It is expected that the Home Prefect, Yen Chin-hsi, now Acting Grain Taotai (Senior Intendant), will succeed him. The substantive Grain Taotai, Ling Ch'ing-yun, will, it is thought, retire; in which case the Prefect of Anshun, Ch'u Hung-hsi, now Acting Intendant of the Eastern Circuit, will probably be promoted to that post.
A Taotai named Hsiang arrived at Kneiyang some time ago in connection with the new opium levy; but as he ignored the provincial authorities, these last are deferring action until Pang fut'ai arrives.
Vernacular Journals,
The Kueichow Gazette," which formed the subject of my report of the 26th August, 1906, was discontinued after its third issue. The Educational Depart- ment at Kueiyang (the "Hsuo-wu Kuug-so") is now publishing a monthly magazine entitled the "Kueichow Pedagogues Gazette" ("Kueichow chiao-yu kuan- pao"), the first two numbers of which have reached Yunnan-fu. It is reported that another magazine, or perhaps a newspaper, is to appear in the next Chinese year (the 14th February, 1907).
Rising of Aborigines in Tu-yun Prefecture.
In the early part of 1906 the Miao in Tu-yun Prefecture rose, as a protest against the "foreign learning" ("yang-hsuo," the new Government schools) and the "foreign propaganda" ("yang-chiao," in this instance, Catholic proselytism). The irritamenta were squeezing and oppression on the part both of underlings of the Tu-yun Prefect and of native Roman Catholic catechists. As too often happens in China, the trouble was not properly dealt with, though the Prefect, Pan Chai-yi, was recalled to the provincial capital, where he committed suicide. His successor was also recalled, but the unrest spread to Tu-shan Chou, Li-po Hsien, and northward to Kueiting Hsien, in the Kueiyang Prefecture. Mr. and Mrs. Pike, British subjects in the China Inland Mission, are at Tu-shan; and Mrs. Windsor, of Tsunyi, arrived on the 9th December, 1906, at Kueiyang, on her way to nurse Mrs. Pike. Mr. Cecil-Smith, feeling that their safety was a matter that could not well await an application through me, made inquiries at the Department
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