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From the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs
482
to His Majesty's Consul-General.
March 30, 1913.
Export of Limestone:
Replies to queries put in Mr. Jamieson's
letter of March 21, 1913.
The Commissioner of Foreign Affairs has the honour to state in reply to the queries put in His Majesty's Consul-General's communication (of the 21st. instant) that he has ascertained from the Commissioner of Industry the following facts:-
In regard to Question No. 3, as to whether the contracts made by the Creen Island Cement Company were entered into and executed with the full knowledge and consent of the Imperial Government, the Commissioner has no source of evidence. He does, however, know that the Imperial Government prohibited contracts for the illicit quarrying and the illicit conveyance of limestone. In regard to Question llo. 4. besides the Fei Shu Quarry, the Imperial Government closed the following three quarries:- Lo Ti Wan (Lao Ti Wan) and the quarries in the vicinity in Ying Tuk (Ying Te Hsien) were closed down in the 1st. moon of the 33rd . year of Kuang Hsu (January 1907) by order of the Governor-General, Chou Fu, on account of the T'am Shai-lim (T'an Shih-lien) case; Lung T'ou Ying in Ying Tk (Ying Te Hsien) by order of the Gover- -nor-General, Chang Jen-chun in the 5th. moon of the 34th. Year of Kuang Hsu (June 1908); Pak Fui Hang (Pai Hui Hang) on the borders of Tung Koon (Tung Kuan Hsien) and Kuei Hsin (Kuei Shan Hsien) by order of the Tao tai of Industry in the 7th. moon of the
3rd. year of Hsuan T'ung (September 1911).
In regard to Question No. 6. the Commissioner has already stated in a previous communications that the Governor Ch'en's Proclamation of April 26, 1912, was directed against local bullies and unprincipled merchants. His Majesty's Consul- -General quoted the following sentences from the Proclamation:-
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