This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[AMENDED COPY.]
No. 1.
591
[September 29.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received September 29.)
India Office, September 28, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Brodrick to acknowledge receipt of Mr. Campbell's letter of the 22nd ultimo, on the subject of the undelimited portion of the Burmah-Yünnan boundary lying between the Namting River and Nalawt.
In reply I am to say that, after consultation with the Government of India, Mr. Brodrick concurs in Sir E. Satow's view that the request of the Chinese Government for another Frontier Commission should not be entertained. He would suggest, for the consideration of the Marquess of Lansdowne, that Sir E. Satow should be instructed to take a suitable opportunity to inform the Chinese Government, in accordance with Lord Lansdowne's despatch of the 11th December, 1903, that His Majesty's Government will continue to regard the line laid down by Mr. (now Sir G.) Scott in 1900 as the provisional boundary, and to intimate that Chinese officials and troops cannot be allowed to transgress it.
(Telegraphic.) P.
I am,
(Signed)
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
&c.
HORACE WALPOLE.
Mr Brodrick to Government of India.
India Office, August 31, 1904.
PLEASE refer to despatch of the 22nd June last from Sir E. Satow as to Burmah-China boundary.
What are your views?
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.
(Telegraphic.) P.
BURMAH-CHINA frontier.
September 16, 1904.
We have consulted Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah on your telegram of the 31st August, and we concur with His Majesty's Minister at Peking in thinking, for the reasons which he gives, that proposal of the Chinese Government for another Frontier Commission should be resisted.
It is open to objection, also, in view of the danger of conflict with the Was and the great expense which would be involved.
Please refer in this connection to our despatch of the 2nd August, 1900, Secret (Scott's Report).
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[AMENDED COPY.]
No. 1.
591
[September 29.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received September 29.)
India Office, September 28, 1904. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Brodrick to acknowledge receipt of Mr. Campell's letter of the 22nd ultimo, on the subject of the undelimited portion of the Burtnah- Yünnan boundary lying between the Namting River and Nalawt.
In reply I am to say that, after consultation with the Government of India, Mr. Brodrick concurs in Sir E. Satow's view that the request of the Chinese Govern- ment for another Frontier Commission should not be entertained, He would suggest, for the consideration of the Marquess of Lansdowne, that Sir E. Satow should be instructed to take a suitable opportunity to inform the Chinese Government, in accordance with Lord Lansdowne's despatch of the 11th December, 1903, that His Majesty's Government will continue to regard the line laid down by Mr. (now Sir G.) Scott in 1900 as the provisional boundary, and to intimate that Chinese officials and troops cannot be allowed to transgress it.
(Telegraphic.) P.
I am,
(Signed)
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
&c.
HORACE WALPOLE.
Mr Brodrick to Government of India.
India Office, August 31, 1904.
PLEASE refer to despatch of the 22nd June last from Sir E. Satow as to Burmah--
China boundary.
What are your views?
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Government of India to Mr. Brodrick.
(Telegraphic.) P.
BURMAH-CHINA frontier.
September 16, 1904.
We have consulted Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah on your telegram of the 31st August, and we concur with His Majesty's Minister at Peking in thinking, for the reasons which he gives, that proposal of the Chinese Government for another Frontier Commission should be resisted.
It is open to objection, also, in view of the danger of conflict with the Was and the great expense which would be involved.
Please refer in this connection to our despatch of the 2nd August, 1900, Secret (Scott's Report).
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