AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA, MODIFYING THE CONVENTION OF MARCH 1, 1894, RELATIVE TO BURMAH AND THIBET.
Signed at Peking, February 4, 1897.
[Ratifications exchanged at Peking, June 3, 1897.]
IN consideration of the Government of Great Britain consenting to waive its objections to the alienation by China, by the Convention with France of the 20th June, 1895, of territory forming a portion of Kiang Hung, in derogation of the provisions of the Convention between Great Britain and China of the 1st March, 1894, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the following additions and alterations shall be made in the last-named Convention, hereinafter referred to as the original Convention :
ARTICLE I.
It is agreed that the frontier between the two Empires from latitude 25° 35′ north shall run as follows:
Commencing at the high peak situated approximately in that latitude and in longitude 98° 14′ east of Greenwich and 18° 16′ west of Peking, the line shall follow, as far as possible, the crest of the hills running in a south-westerly direction to Warung Peak (Kaulyang), and shall extend thence to Sabu Pum.
From Sabu Pum the frontier shall run in a line along the watershed slightly to the south of west through Shatrung Pum to Namienku Pum.
Thence it shall follow a line to be fixed after local investigation, dividing the Szis and the Kumsas as far as the Tabak Kha; thence the Tabak Kha to the Namtabet; thence the Namtabet to the Paknoi Kha; thence the Paknoi Kha to its source near Talang Pum; thence the Talang Pum ridge to Bura Shikong.
From Bura Shikong the frontier shall follow a line running in a south-west direction to the Laisa Kha; thence the Laisa Kha
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