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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government."

AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

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(No. 127.) Sir,

[April 10.]

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Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey;-(Received April 10.)

Peking, March 22, 1911. ON the 13th instant I had the honour to repeat to you a telegram I had received the previous day from the acting British consul at Tengyueh to the effect that 200 Chinese subjects from the village of Chefang had crossed the Burmese border and burnt the village of Paugsheng, lying in latitude 24° 5'. I added that I was making representations to the Wai-wu Pu on the subject. I have the honour to transmit the copy of the note which I addressed to Prince Ch'ing, protesting against this outrage, and requesting the punishment of the guilty parties and the prevention of similar acts of lawlessness in the future.

On the 20th March I received a reply, translation of which is enclosed, from the Chinese Government, communicating a telegram from the Taotai of Tengyueh relative to the depredations of a brigand named Tsao Lo, who appears to be the ringleader in these disturbances, and whom the local officials have been ineffectually pursuing since the month of January.

I have, &c.

J. N. JORDAN.

Your Highness,

Enclosure in No. 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.

Peking, March 15, 1911. I HAVE the honour to inform your Highness that I am in receipt of a telegraphic report from His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh to the effect that the British village of Pangsheng, situated in latitude 25° 5' north, in the neighbourhood of the Burmah- Yünnan frontier, has been burnt by raiders to the number of some 200 belonging to the Chinese village of Chefang.

This serious violation of the frontier is another instance of the inability of the Yiunan provincial authorities to exercise proper control in the frontier districts, and I must request your Highness to issue the necessary instructions by telegraph without delay to ensure punishment of the guilty parties and prevent any recurrence of such outrages in the future.

I avail, &c.

J. N. JORDAN.

Sir,

Enclosure 2 in No. 1.

Prince Ch'ing to Sir J. Jordan.

Peking, March 20, 1911.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 15th instant, stating that the British village of Pangsheng, situated in latitude 25° 5′ north, in the neighbourhood of the Burmah-Yünnan frontier, had been burnt by raiders belonging to the Chinese village of Chefang. Your Excellency accordingly requested me to issue the necessary instructions by telegraph without delay to ensure punish- ment of the guilty parties.

I accordingly telegraphed to the Yunnan Viceroy to investigate and deal with the This telegram was just on the point of being dispatched when a telegram was received from the Viceroy as follows:--

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"The Tengyueh Taotai reports that in January last His Majesty's consul addressed him a despatch to the effect that at Po Wang, in Burmese territory, there was a

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