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72
C.C.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[6141]
No. 1.
"
[February 22.]
SECTION 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 22.)
(No. 4. Confidential.) Sir,
Peking, January 2, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to report that M. Shipov, who was Minister of Finance for some months in M. de Witte's Cabinet, and is still, I believe, largely interested in banking and financial questions in Russia, paid a visit last week to Peking and was received in audience by the Emperor.
M. Shipov came here from Manchuria, where he had spent some two months on an official mission of investigation into the affairs of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the condition of the Russian settlers in Manchuria, and a variety of other questions which call for attention in view of Russia's altered position in the Far East.
M. Shipov does not appear to have been favourably impressed by what he saw in Manchuria. The Chinese Eastern Railway, with its 25,000 railway guards, entailing an annual outlay of over 1,000,000l., is not likely, he thinks, to prove a paying concern for a considerable time to come, and the Russian communities at Harbin and other places contain a large revolutionary element which is proving very troublesome.
The Russian Minister informs me that when the Governor-General of Manchuria, his Excellency Hsü Shih-ch'ang, recently visited Harbin he was surprised to find all the shops in the Russian settlement there closed as a protest against the arrest of the members of the Duma, and these manifestations are, M. Pokotilow states, extending to Russian settlements in Japan.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN,
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[B]
72
C.C.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[6141]
No. 1.
"
[February 22.]
SECTION 1.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 22.)
(No. 4. Confidential.) Sir,
Peking, January 2, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to report that M. Shipov, who was Minister of Finance for some months in M. de Witte's Cabinet, and is still, I believe, largely interested in banking and financial questions in Russia, paid a visit last week to Peking and was received in audience by the Emperor.
M. Shipov came here from Manchuria, where he had spent some two months on an official mission of investigation into the affairs of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the condition of the Russian settlers in Manchuria, and a variety of other questions which call for attention in view of Russia's altered position in the Far East.
M. Shipov does not appear to have been favourably impressed by what he saw in Manchuria. The Chinese Eastern Railway, with its 25,000 railway guards, entailing an annual outlay of over 1,000,000, is not likely, he thinks, to prove a paying concern for a considerable time to come, and the Russian communities at Harbin and other places contain a large revolutionary element which is proving very troublesome.
The Russian Minister informs me that when the Governor-General of Manchuria, his Excellency Hsii Shih-ch'ang, recently visited Harbin he was surprised to find all the shops in the Russian settlement there closed as a protest against the arrest of the members of the Duina, and these manifestations are, M. Pokotilow states, extending to Russian settlements in Japan.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN,
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