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SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
209
[August 10.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office,
Foreign Office, August 10, 1905. WITH reference to your letter of the 27th April last, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for India, that a despatch has been received from Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, forwarding his Report on the recent survey of the undelimited portion of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary north of Manung Pum, and submitting the conclusions arrived at with regard to the frontier delimitation by the British Commissioners and their recommendations for a settlement of the question.
A copy of this despatch has been sent direct to the Government of Burmah. I am to transmit to you at the same time the accompanying copy of a further despatch from Mr. Litton, inclosing translations of his correspondence on the same subject with the Taotai of West Yünnan and the Yunnan-fu authorities.
Mr. Litton has been thanked for his Report and informed that Lord Lansdowne proposes to defer any expression of opinion in regard to the course to be adopted in present circumstances until he is in possession of the views of the Government of India on the subject.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. H. VILLIERS.
• Mr. Latton, No. 8, June 8, 1905.
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