This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government;
C. O.
33035
[June 24.]
477
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[21824]
No. 1.
SECTION 2,
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 24.)
(No. 125.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Peking, June 24, 1908.
Macao. The proposal for the appointment of a Mixed Commission to delimit the boundaries of Macao has been accepted by the Chinese Government. In the Memorandum sent to the Portuguese Minister by the Wai-wu Pu informing him of their acceptance, the latter add that the Viceroy at Canton will appoint a Chinese Delegate as soon as the name and official rank of the Portuguese Representative has been notified.
As regards the incident dealt with in the first paragraph of my telegram No. 123, dated the 17th instant, the Wai-wu Pu now deny that it happened in Portuguese waters. They name a place in Chinese waters as the scene of the occurrence, but Baron Sendal has had to send a telegraphic inquiry to Macao, as we are unable to identify the spot from the sources of information at our disposal here.
It seems clear to me that the Chinese are anxious to confine the negotiations to the Portuguese and themselves, and our intervention is looked upon with marked dislike.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government;}
C. O.
33035
[June24.]
477
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[21824]
No. 1.
SECTION 2,
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Reccived June 24.)
(No. 125.) (Telegraphic.) P.
Peking, June 24, 1908. MACAO. The proposal for the appointment of a Mixed Commission to delimit the boundaries of Macao has been accepted by the Chinese Government. In the Memorandum sent to the Portuguese Minister by the Wai-wu Pu informing him of their acceptance, the latter add that the Viceroy at Canton will appoint a Chinese Delegate as soon as the name and official rank of the Portuguese Representative has been notified.
As regards the incident dealt with in the first paragraph of my telegram No. 123, dated the 17th instant, the Wai-pu Pu now deny that it happened in Portuguese waters. They name a place in Chinese waters as the scene of the occurrence, but Baron Sendal has had to send a telegraphic inquiry to Macao, as we are unable to identify the spot from the sources of information at our disposal here.
It seems clear to me that the Chinese are anxious to confine the negotiations to the Portuguese and themselves, and our intervention is looked upon with marked dislike.
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