"المجلد II. مذكرات بخصوص شؤون خارجية أخرى. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٩‎٧] (٢٢٨/١٩٨)

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Government, and to request that the Paris
Convention rules of 1903 should be followed.
Ihis telegram was also repeated to His
Majesty’s Minister at Bangkok, who replied
on the 12th October 1905 that the Minister
of the Interior had issued instructions that
traders arriving from the Burma frontier
stations between Dan Menao and Ban Mesowk
should be allowed to proceed without detention,
and that quarantine should be enforced ac
cording to medical officers’ instructions only
on persons suffering from plague.
33. (See paragraph 23 of the Memo
randum for August 1905.) The Siamese
Government have decided to retain the services
of Mr. Lloyd as Conservator of Forests, Siam,
and propose to pay him a monthly salary of
Its. 1,750 per mensem.
31. The Government of Burma tele
graphed on the 26th October 1905 that a tele
gram had been received from Captain Fabricius
of the Siamese gendarmerie at Mezauk that,
while he was drilling his gendarmes, a dakait
fired twice at him and wounded him in the
thigh and the knee. The gendarmes after
wards killed the dakait. Captain Fabricius is
a Dane in the Siamese service, who has
co-operated with British officers in suppress
ing dakaiti. The man who fired at Captain
Fabricius was reported to be a Shan possessing
a British passport from Bangkok.
35. The Government of the Straits
Settlements forwarded, for the information of
the Government of India, a copy of a letter
addressed to the Resident Councillor at Penang
by the Raja Muda, President of the State
Council of the Siamese Malay State of Kedah,
stating that it was proposed to abolish the
system of forced labour in Kedah and to sub
stitute a general poll tax on all classes of the
population with certain exceptions. His
.Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settle
ments caused the Raja Muda to be informed
that he was unable, as far as British subjects
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were concerned, to agree to the proposal
without reference to His Majesty s Govern
ment and to the Government of India.
Calcutta ;
The 1st November 1905.
R. E. HOLLAND.