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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.j.
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
30281 August 1] Red 22 AUG 05
SECTION 1.
Xo, 1.
(No. 172.) Sir,
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.
Foreign Office, August 4, 1905.
I HAVE received Mr. Consul Litton's despatches Nos. 7 and 8 of the 30th May and the 8th June last respectively, and his Report on the survey of the undelimited portion of the Burmah-Yünnan boundary north of Manung Pum, in which he submits the conclusions arrived at in the matter by the British Delimitation Commissioners, and their recommendations for a settlement of the question.
I request that you will thank Mr. Litton for his interesting Report, and inform him that 1 propose to défer any expression of opinion in regard to the course to be adopted in present circumstances until I am in possession of the views of the Government of India on the subject.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
LANSDOWNE.
[2128 d-1]