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Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Note communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.
ON the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 19th January I referred to His Majesty's Government your request for the joint inspection of opium of the six Provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Kuangtung. Shensi, Yunnan, and Kueichow, and I have now received a telegraphic reply from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs assenting to the proposal.
I have the honour, therefore, to inform your Excellency that I will appoint six consular officers as the British delegates for the purpose, and will send a secretary to the Wai-chiao Pu to make the necessary arrangements on bearing from you of the appointment of the Chinese delegates.
Peking, February 26, 1917.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1,
Note communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.
WITH reference to my note of the 26th February on the subject of the joint inspection for opium of Kiangsu, Kiangsi. Kuangtung, Shensi, Yunnan, and Kueichow, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that I have appointed the following officers as the British delegates :-
Kiangsu Mr. W. S. Toller, His Majesty's consul at Ningpo. Kiangsi Mr, W. R. Brown, His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang. Kuangtung: Mr. S. Wyatt Smith, British vice-consul, Swatow.
Shenai Mr. E. Teichman, attached to His Majesty's Legation, Peking.
Yünnan: Mr. A. E. Eastes, His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh.
Kueichow Mr. B. Tours, C.M.G., His Majesty's consul at Ichang.
I beg to enclose herewith copies of the instructions that I have issued to these officers, and I should be obliged if your Excellency would inform me of the names and ranks of the delegates appointed by the Chinese Government and furnisà me with copies of the instructions that have been issued to them.
In accordance with the verbal arrangements that have been made, I understand that, as regards the three Provinces of Kuangtung, Kucichow, and Yunnan, the Central Government has already sent telegraphic instructions to the Governors concerned to arrange with His Majesty's consuls at Swatow, Chungking, and Yunnan respectively through the Foreign Affairs' Commissioners for the appointment of the Chinese delegates, who are to be chosen locally.
The matter is especially urgent in the case of Kuangtung and Kueichow, where the poppy is already in Bower, and I trust that the local authorities have been instructed to make the necessary arrangements without delay.
As regards the remaining three provinces, for which, I understand, the Chinese delegates are to be sent from Peking, I would request that the inspecting officials for Kiangsi should be instructed to reach Kiukiang on the 20th March and place them- selves in communication with His Majesty's consul, and that those for Kiangsu should arrive at Nanking on the 26th April, where they can also meet the British delegate at the consulate. As regards Shensi, I should be obliged if your Excellency would instruct the Chinese delegates for that province to make the necessary arrangements with Mr. Teichman, of the legation, with a view to starting at the end of March.
Peking, March 7, 1917.
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having been verbally arranged with Wai-chiao Pu that the Government of Kueichow should inform him of the arrangements as regards the Chinese delegates through the Foreign Affairs' Commissioner and His Majesty's consul at Chungking.
I now have to inform your Excellency that I am instructing Mr. Tours that, on the completion of his inspection of Kucichow, he should continue his journey and inspect the eastern portion of Yunnan, and I shall be glad if you will request the Governor of Yünnau to send a Chinese delegate to meet him on the Kueichow border.
The western portion of Yunnan will be examined by Mr. Eastes, His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh, as stated in my former note.
I beg to enclose a copy of the supplementary instructions issued to Mr. Tours as the British delegate for opium inspection in Eastern Yünnan,* and to request that your Excellency will furnish me in due course with a copy of the instructions issued to Lis Chinese colleague,
Peking, March 12, 1917.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
Note communicated to Wai-chico Pu.
IN my note of the 7th March on the subject of joint inspection of certain provinces for opium I have informed your Excellency that I had appointed Mr. Tours, His Majesty's cousul at Ichang, to be the British delegate for the inspection of Kueichow, and had instructed him to proceed to that province immediately via Chungking, it
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