This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL,
No. 1.
82
[October 9.]
SECTION 2.
!
(No. 300.) Sir,
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.
Foreign Office, October 9, 1903. WITH reference to Mr. Townley's telegram No. 160 of the 22nd June last and to previous correspondence respecting the question of the boundary between Burmah and China in the N'Maikha region, I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the India Office, recommending a proposal made by the Government of India, that a further communication on the subject should be addressed to the Chinese Government.
In accordance with the suggestions made in the telegram and despatch from the Chief Secretary to the Government of Burmah, dated the 24th July and the 10th August respectively, which form Inclosures 6 and 7 in the letter from the Government of India No. 128 of the 27th August, I request that you will intimate clearly to the Chinese Government that His Majesty's Government claim as their frontier in the N'Maikha region the watershed of all streams that drain into the N'Maikha from the East, and that they intend to regard the provisional boundary as the actual boundary between China and Burmah, unless and until a settlement is arrived at. You should also warn the Chinese Government that should this frontier not be respected and should armed parties be sent across it there will be a risk of their coming in contact with British forces.
The Secretary to the Government of Burmah points out that the provisional boundary is not merely "the watershed between the N'Maikha and the Salween Rivers," the description used by Sir C. MacDonald in his note to the Tsung-li Yamên of the 28th July, 1898, and repeated in subsequent communications to the Chinese Government, but the watershed between the N'Maikha on the one side and the Salween and the Shweli on the other.
The inclosures to the letter from the India Office of the 17th April, 1901, which are referred to in the letter herein inclosed as containing a full description of the boundary claimed by the Government of India, were communicated to you by that Government in March 1901.
I have to request you to instruct Mr. Litton to address to the Yunnan authorities a communication in similar terms to that which you will make to the Chinese Government on receipt of this despatch.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
LANSDOWNE,
* India Office. September 23, 1903.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL,
No. 1.
82
[October 9.]
SECTION 2.
!
(No. 300.) Sir,
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.
Foreign Office, October 9, 1903. WITH reference to Mr. Townley's telegram No. 160 of the 22nd June last and to previous correspondence respecting the question of the boundary between Burmah and China in the N'Maikha region, I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the India Office, recommending a proposal made by the Government of India, that a further communication on the subject should be addressed to the Chinese Government.
In accordance with the suggestions made in the telegram and despatch from the Chief Secretary to the Government of Burmah, dated the 24th July and the 10th August respectively, which form Inclosures 6 and 7 in the letter from the Government of India No. 128 of the 27th August, I request that you will intimate clearly to the Chinese Government that His Majesty's Covernment claim as their frontier in the N'Maikha region the watershed of all streams that drain into the N'Maikha from the East, and that they intend to regard the provisional boundary as the actual boundary between China and Burmah, unless and until a settlement is arrived at. You should also warn the Chinese Government that should this frontier not be respected and should armed parties be sent across it there will be a risk of their coming in contact with British forces.
The Secretary to the Government of Burmah points out that the provisional boundary is not merely "the watershed between the N'Maikha and the Salween Rivers," the description used by Sir C. MacDonald in his note to the Tsung-li Yamên of the 28th July, 1898, and repeated in subsequent communications to the Chinese Govern- ment, but the watershed between the N'Maikha on the one side and the Salween and the Shwell on the other.
The inclosures to the letter from the India Office of the 17th April, 1901, which are referred to in the letter herein inclosed as containing a full description of the boundary claimed by the Government of India, were communicated to you by that Government in March 1901.
I have to request you to instruct. Mr. Litton to address to the Yunnan authorities a communication in similar terms to that which you will make to the Chinese Government on receipt of this despatch.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
* India Office. September 23, 1903.
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