'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎79r] (162/228)

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of the P ChTn e ’e sit ^r 1 S °^l e ’ Chief «
be found to ha™ . ho mi§ht su bsequently
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Fourthly, he recommended that if !
Skfrthe P ChS« fr p 0m the transfer of T aota i
proorastiLt^ a f ? < ? Verilmont attempt to
procrastinate and delay settlement of the
representative 6 that ? heir new local
lepresentative is not acquainted with the
question, all proposals for another visit to tlm
frontier or for protracted discussion regarding
ts location should he firmly resisted. The
Burma Government, in submitting Mr!
■Litton s reports, has accepted and endorsed
his recommendations, subject to a few observ
ations, and the Government of India have
expressed to the Secretary of State their
concurrence in the Lieutenant-Governor’s
views, and have suggested that His Majesty’s
Minister at Peking should be instructed to
address the Chinese Government in the sense
proposed by Sir Herbert White.
20. In a telegram, dated 28th July
1905, the Government of Burma reported that
Mr. Wilkinson, Consul-General at Yunnan-fu,
had telegraphed that French Government
construction trains were going through up
to Lokay on the frontier, hut that the line
of railway would not be open to traffic for two
months or so. The Government of Burma
subsequently forwarded a copy of a letter from
Mr. Wilkinson, regarding the French railway
from Haiphong to Yunnan-fu, in which he
states that, in the opinion of the French
Consul-General, the railway will be in running
order right through to Yunnan-fu within six
months of its arrival at Mengtse.
Mr. Wilkinson thinks that, if his
colleague is justified in his opinion, it is pos
sible that the railway may reach Yunnan-fu
in three years from now.
21. With reference to paragraph 11 of
the Memorandum for June 1905, the Govern
ment of Burma, on the 31st July 1905, sub
mitted a copy of Mr. Wilkinson’s letter, dated
25th June 1905, forwarding a copy of his
report to the British Minister, Peking, in
which he stated that, while Imperial sanction
has been given to the proposal for a Yunnan-
Ssuchuen Bailway, the Wai-wu-pu is raising
objections to the employment of foreigners in
its construction.
SIAM.
22. The Assistant Political Officer, Keng-
tung-Southern Shan States, in bis diary for
the period ending 16th March 1905, reports
that he has heard that the mntka, who led the
North Siamese disturbances of 1901, gave out
that he was going to take Chieng Hsen an