སྐྱུ-བམ འ 1:
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[September 19.]
SECTION 3.
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(No. 260.) Sir,
No. 1.
Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received September 19.)
Peking, August 2, 1910. WITH reference to Sir John Jordan's despatches Nos. 323 and 475 of the Sth September and 20th December of last year, I have the honour to forward berewith copy of a report by His Majesty's consul at Harbin on the Chientao and Hunchun districts.
The region in question was ceded to China by the Sino-Japanese convention of the 4th September last, but it appears that the Japanese have not ceased to take an active interest in the country, and Mr. Sly in his report calls attention to the increasing number of Coreans who are settling in the open marts, and to the belief that this influx of settlers is being encouraged by the Japanese Government with a view to having a ground for interference should an opportunity occur.
I have sent copies of this despatch and enclosure to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo.
I have, &c.
(In the absence of His Majesty's chargé d'affaires), ERNEST SCOTT.
Vov.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Acting Consul Sly to Mr. Max Müller.
(No. 19. Confidential.) Sir,
Harbin, July 24, 1910. I HAVE the honour to report to you concerning affairs in the Chientao and Hunchun districts. The information has been supplied to me by gentlemen who are personally acquainted with the localities, and, though probably not free from inaccuracy in every respect, should be substantially correct. Reliable maps of the country are at present not obtainable; but I hope to be able to check the particulars given me in regard to the position of the various places mentioned.
As stated in my despatch No. 11 of the 11th May last on the subject of the formation of a Russo-Japanese society at Harbin, Japanese consular representatives have been sent to each of the four open ports, namely, a vice-consul to Chu Tzu Chieh or Yen Chi Kang, Tou Tao Kou, and Pai Ts'ao Kou, and a consul-general to Long Ching Ts'un or Liu Tao Kou. A vice-consul was also installed last month at Hunchun.
The Japanese on the spot openly tell the Chinese that the Chientao question, despite previous agreements, is not yet settled, and have in Lung Ching Tsun or Lin Tao Kou, where there are some seventy Japanese gendarmes, given offence to the Chinese by affixing Japanese names and numbers to streets and houses.
A deputy commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs resides at Hunchun, and the Yen Chi branch office is, as notified to you by the Wai-wu Pu in their note of the 16th December last, established at Lung Ching Tsun, which is about 40 li to the south of Yen Chi itself. Yen Chi luxuriates in some nine different names, and is variously called Yen Chi Kang, Yen Chi Fu, Yen Chi Ting, Chu Tzu Chieh, &c. It is now a "fu" or prefectural city. Pai Ts'ao Kou is roughly 120 & north of Yen Chi Kang, and is distant about 240 li from Hunchun; the same distance, approximately, separates the latter place from Yen Chi Kang; while Tou Tao Kou lies about 40 li to the west of Lung Ching Ts'un. Both the Tiumen and Hung Chi Rivers are unnavigable for ordinary craft, but small dug-outs ascend the former from Shih Pa Ta Ti, to which point goods are brought overland from Ungi, a new port on the Corean coast, which bas a small harbour favoured with deep water and is visited by uine Japanese steamers a month. The construction of a light railway from Ungi to Shih På Ta Ti has been authorised by the Japanese authorities. The venture is a
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