  The flux of photons with energies above 1 TeV from the direction of the
centre and a cloud in the western part of the nearby southern supernova remnant
(SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 is calculated in the ``hadronic scenario'' that aims to
explain the intense VHE radiation from this remnant with the decay of \pi_0
pions produced in nuclear collisions. The expected flux from its centre is
found to fall short by about factor 40 from the one observed by the HESS
collaboration. This discrepancy presents a serious obstacle to the ``hadronic
scenario''. The theoretically expected flux from the molecular cloud exceeds
the one observed by HESS by at least a factor 3. While the size of this
discrepancy might still seem acceptable in the face of various theoretical
uncertainties, the result strongly suggests a strict spatial correlation of the
cloud with an excess of TeV \gamma radiation. The observational lack of such
correlations in the remnant reported by HESS is another counter argument
against the hadronic scenario. In combination these arguments cannot be refuted
by choosing certain parameters for the total energy or acceleration efficiency
of the SNR.
