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26. Vessels wishing to load or discharge cargo before 6 A.M. and after 6 P.M., or on Sundays or holidays, must apply for a special permit from the Customs.
The fees charged on such permit are :---
This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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[September 9.]
SECTION 1.
For working before 6 A.M.
after 6 A.M. to 12 P.M.
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Sunday permit (whole day)
(half day)
25
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holiday permit (whole day)
Haikwan taels.
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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 9.)
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(No. 343.) Sir,
27. All business communications should be addressed to the Commissioner of Customs.
28. The term "interior" in the Regulations means any part of Chinese territory beyond the frontier of the leased territory.
P.S.-According to a later despatch of Mr. Parlett's dated the 31st July, by Ordinance No. 42, issued by the Governor-General of Kwangtung, the following Regulations have been added to the provisional Customs Regulations for the leased territory of the Kwangtung embodied in Ordinance No. 38 of Meiji 40:-
Article 2 (paragraph 2). If it is desired to send products of the leased territory or goods manufactured therefrom into the interior, they shall be liable to import duty.
It is, however, permissible for the person sending such goods or products not to pay import duty, should he so prefer; but in that case the said goods or products shall receive the same treatment as Chinese goods or products.
Article 26 (paragraph 1). The rate of exchange for Haikwan taels payable to the Customs at Dairen shall be determined by the rate ruling at Newchwang.
Peking, July 22, 1907. IT is difficult to give any connected account of the disturbances which are going on in widely separated parts of the country at present, but the Reports which I have the honour to inclose herewith will convey some idea of the state of things in the lower Yang-tsze and in the provinces in the immediate neighbourhood of Shanghae.
The extract from the Wuhu Intelligence Report indicates considerable revolu- tionary activity in the Province of Anhui, where the assassination of the late Governor and the appointment of a reactionary as his successor has probably tended to stimulate rather than repress the movement. The plot through which the late Governor lost his life seems to have aimed at the murder of all the officials and the seizure of the provincial capital, but the plans of the revolutionaries were disconcerted by a change in the date for the inspection of the students.
The reports from Messrs. Pearson and Mortimore deal with the Province of Cheikiang where there have been widespread troubles due to a variety of causes. The Wai-wu Pu, to whom I communicated the substance of Mr. Pearson's Report, admitted that there had been serious rioting in a number of places, which had called for the dispatch of troops and strong measures of repression.
Mr. Mortimore's account of the riot at Tinghai is a curious illustration of the weakness of provincial government in China under the altered conditions of the present day. Whether the movement is, as in this case, a reaction against the new methods, or a protest against the old, the officials are equally disinclined or powerless to withstand the expressed will of the people as soon as it shows any sign of asserting itself by a show of force. It is this undue deference to popular clamour, however unreasonable it may be, on the part of the provincial as also of the central authorities, which threatens to make all government impossible, as soon as the people begin to realize the full use that may be made of their newly acquired power.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN,
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Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Extract from the Wuhu Intelligence Report.
Revolutionary Propaganda.
THE recent extensive seizures of arms in the north have caused the authorities on the Yang-teze considerable uneasiness, and stringent precautions are being taken against any similar happenings in these parts. Under instructions from the Viceroy, the Taotai has written to the Commissioner of Customs, communicating to him a very liberal scale of rewards for the detection of smuggled arms and ammunition. A recent edition of the Nang Fang Pao" announced that the Viceroy at Nanking had decided to establish a detective force in the Treaty ports and large towns, and that he had applied to Yuan Shih K'ai for the loan of some officers to assist him in carrying out his scheme.
A missionary, who has been for a long time in Anching and has considerable experience of the Yang-tsze districts, informed me recently that he regarded the revolutionary movement in these parts as very widespread and steadily increasing. Many Chinese officials were, he said, in active sympathy with the movement, a fact which no doubt accounted for so few of the adherents being discovered and punished. Their affairs are conducted with great secrecy and circumspection; and although a very extensive revolutionary literature is circulating all over the country, it is almost
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