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A report by Acting Salt Comptroller Ku-Ping-chang to G. G. Yeh Ming-ch'en on: (a)...

Catalogue reference: FO 931/1413

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FO 931/1413

Date

1853 Dec 4

Description

A report by Acting Salt Comptroller Ku-Ping-chang to G. G. Yeh Ming-ch'en on: (a) the rebels in Lung-ch'uan district having been driven back to Kiangsi; (b) the difficulty involved in transporting salt from the Huai salt administration to southern Kiangsi would possibly open up southern Kiangsi to Kwangtung salt; (c) foreigners importing sycee into China; (d) the exchange of Kiangsi rice for Ch'ao-chou salt; (e) rebels entering Tientsin; (f) the G. of Fukien now with his camp at Ch'üan-chou is cut off from money supplies from Foochow and has started printing paper money at Ch'üan-chou; (g) a report on the military situation in Fukien. 5 ff.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

F.O. 682/1971/42

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Public Record(s)

Language

Chinese

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Open Document, Open Description

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Kwangtung Provincial Archives: Documents of the Chinese Administration in Kwangtung

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