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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
RECO
Rea? 26 100 10 [May 21.]
SECTION 1.
Mr. Maz Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 21.)
(No. 99.) (Telegraphic.) P.
BURMAH frontier.
Peking, May 21, 1910.
With reference to your telegram No. 72 of the 4th May, the Wai-wu Pu have sent me a note upholding the exercise of jurisdiction by the provincial authorities in the Pienma villages which they claim are in Chinese territory. The note further requests me to send instructions to His Majesty's consul to abstain from interference, and, lastly, reminds me of their note of the 30th August, 1906, in which a joint delimitation was suggested.
Without prejudice to any action which you may instruct me to take later, I propose, subject to your approval, to remind the Wai-wu Pu of Sir Ernest Satow's warnings, contained in his note of the 30th January 1904, respecting the risks of armed collisions, and, in order that such risks may be reduced to a minimum, to request that the attention of the authorities of Yunnan should be called to the order received by them in 1898 to abstain from any attempt to exercise authority on the west of the mentioned watershed. I also propose to refer the Wai-wu Pu to the last sentence of the note addressed to them by Sir Ernest Satow on the 1st May, 1906.
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