The Archive · 1914

Secret Influence in Yunnan

€TIRRING UP OFFICIALS AGAINST BRITISH — THE GERMAN PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

Chaotung, Sept. 10.

There are at present in the provinees of Yunnan and Kueichow some mysterious anti-Christian and anti-British influences at work among the high offi In former communications I gave particulars of the trouble that arose in connexion with the taxing of land deeds and of the abortive Boxer risings which were so barbarously put: down. A telegram in reference to these troubles was apparently sent by someone to the British Minister in Peking who, I presume, made inquiry into the matter. A Chinese

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