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# SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
## CONFIDENTIAL.
### No. 1.
84
[December 3.]
### SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, December 3, 1903.
IN the letter from this Office of the 9th October, respecting the Burmah-China boundary, a copy was inclosed of a despatch which had been addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, instructing him to 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. Sir Ernest Satow was also to warn the Chinese Government that, should this frontier not be respected, and should armed parties be sent across it, there would be a risk of their coming in contact with British forces.
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne, to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Secretary of State for India, copy of a telegram, from Sir E. Satow, stating that he has not yet notified the Chinese Government in accordance with his instructions, but that he has intimated that he will have to do so unless they undertake not to send troops across the watershed.
He adds, that what they would desire is a similar undertaking on our part not to send troops into the region claimed by them between the river and the watershed, coupled with a statement that the range is a "provisional frontier," and a promise to take part in a Joint Commission to inquire into the facts alleged by them as to the Chiefs of Hpare and Tzuchu being under Chinese suzerainty. The Commission would consist of one official from Peking, one from Yunnan, and one from Burmah.
I am to request that Lord Lansdowne may be informed what reply should, in the opinion of Mr. Secretary Brodrick, be sent to Sir E. Satow's inquiry as to whether His Majesty's Government would approve his effecting an exchange of notes with the Chinese Government on the above basis.
A copy of Sir C. MacDonald's despatch No. 31 of 30th April, 1900,† is inclosed for convenience of reference.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Sir E. Satow, No. 261 (Telegraphic), December 2, 1908.
† Sir C. MacDonald, No. 81, April 30, 1900.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government)
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No. 1.
84
[December 3.]
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, December 3, 1903. IN the letter from this Office of the 9th October, respecting the Burmah-China boundary, a copy was inclosed of a despatch which had been addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, instructing him to 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. Sir Ernest Satow was also to ward the Chinese Government that, should this frontier not be respected, and should armed parties be sent across it, there would be a risk of their coming in contact with British forces.
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne, to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Secretary of State for India, copy of a telegram, from Sir E. Satow, stating that he has not yet notified the Chinese Government in accordance with his instructions, but that he has intimated that he will have to do so unless they undertake not to send troops across the watershed.
He adds, that what they would desire is a similar undertaking on our part not to send troops into the region clained by them between the river and the watershed, coupled with a statement that the range is a "provisional frontier," and a promise to take part in a Joint Commission to inquire into the facts alleged by them as to the Chiefs of Hpare and Tzuchu being under Chinese suzerainty. The Commission would consist of one official from Peking, one from Yunnan, and one from Burmah.
I am to request that Lord Lansdowne may be informed what reply should, in the opinion of Mr. Secretary Brodrick, be sent to Sir E. Satow's inquiry as to whether His Majesty's Government would approve his effecting au exchange of notes with the Chinese Government on the above basis.
A copy of Sir C. MacDonald's despatch No. 31 of 30th April, 1900,† is inclosed for convenience of reference.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
F. A. CAMPBELL.
* Sir E. Satow, No. 261 (Telegraphic), December 2, 1908.
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↑ Sir C. MacDonald, No. 81, April 30, 1900.
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