Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.
WITH reference to his immediately preceding memorandum, His Majesty's Minister has the honour to inform the Wai-chiao Pu that he is in receipt of a further telegram from His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai stating, on the evidence of an eyewitness, that seven chests of Indian opium were forcibly removed from the China Merchants' hulk at Anching to the governor's yamên in the presence of a vast crowd, and that soldiers formed a cordon round the opium on a space behind the yamên, and, mixing it with saltpetre, burned the whole.
In view of the gravity of this case and of the garbled and evasive reports received from tutus where Indian opium is concerned, Sir John Jordan must request the Wai- chiao Pu to take immediate steps to hold an independent enquiry and compensate the owners of the opium for the losses they have sustained through the illegal action of the provincial authorities of Anhui.
Peking, September 20, 1912.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.
WITH reference to his two memoranda of the 20th instant, His Majesty's Minister has the honour to inform the Wai-chiao Pu, under instructions from His Majesty's Secretary of State, he is deputing His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai to proceed to Anching to hold, in conjunction with the Tutu of Anhui, an enquiry into the destruction of seven chests of Indian opium at that city on the 16th instant, and he has to request the Wai-chiao Pu to instruct the tutu by telegraph to afford Sir F. Fraser every facility for and assistance in carrying out the enquiry.
Peking, September 30, 1912.
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India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received October 19.)
India Office, October 18, 1912. WITH reference to your letter of the 11th October, 1912, forwarding a copy of a telegram from His Majesty's representative at Peking, dated the 9th October, regarding the destruction of opium by the authorities of the province of Anhui, and to your letter of the 15th October forwarding a later telegram dispatched on the same day, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to state that he concurs in Sir E. Grey's proposal,contained in the second letter) to authorise Sir J. Jordan to act according to his own discretion in the matter.
I am, &e.
LIONEL ABRAHAMS.
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