CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 326

(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.}

AFFAIRS OF CHINA.

CONFIDENTIAL.

[14004]

No. 1.

C O 18333

RES

[April 15.]

R18 MAY H

SECTION 1.

Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 15.)

(No. 101.) (Telegraphic.) R.

BURMAH frontier.

Peling, April 15, 1911.

I delivered yesterday a note to the Wai-wu Pu embodying instructions contained in your telegram No. 66, aud formally renewing offer of money compensation for extinction of Tengkeng claims.

Minister said that the Chinese claim was by no means confined to three groups of villages mentioned in the note, but extended to many other districts, a list of which would be furnished. They suggested that they should now be allowed to examine disputed region with a view to substantiating their claims. I replied that we were making [group undecypherable] administering country up to watershed, and that any attempt on their part to examine the country would inevitably provoke a collision.

They repeated their previous offer of delimitation, and said that they would auswer the note in due course.

(Repeated to India.)

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