[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(7199)
No. 1.
134
(February 28.
SECTION 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received February 28.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of Mr. Secretary Morley, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of inclosures in a letter from the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 18th January, relative to recent explorations on the Upper Salween.
Sir,
India Office, February 27, 1906,
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Government of Burma to Government of India.
Rangoon, January 2, 1906.
I AM directed to solicit a reference to the correspondence ending with Foreign Department letter dated the 27th November, 1905, on the subject of the Burma-China frontier north of latitude 25° 33'. I am now to submit, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a telegram, dated the 5th December, 1905, addressed by Mr. G. J. L. Litton, His Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul, Tengyueh, to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Yünnan and Kueichow. In the Lieutenant-Governor's opinion, the geographical information gathered by Mr. Litton does not at present render necessary or expedient any revision of the views stated in my letter dated the 19th June, 1905.
I have, &c. (Signed)
S. A. SMYTH,
For Chief Secretary.
(Telegraphic.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Acting Consul Litton to Consul-General Wilkinson.
December 5, 1905.
I REACHED a point on the Salween eight marches further than the highest point last spring. I also explored two new passes on the Mekong-Salween divide and one on the Salween-Irrawaddy divide. We were able to trace the course of the Salween up to north latitude 27° 20', up to which point the Salween is confined between a series of ridges; the country is very difficult. Up to 27° 20' there are some traces of Chinese jurisdiction, but the country is much disturbed by the bad conduct of the Chinese Sawbwas.
Further north, there is no trace of Chinese authority up to latitude 27° 35', where Yetche territories begin. The independent tract is inhabited by Lissu under conditions of utter savagery.
Examination showed that the divide between the Salween and Irrawaddy continues to be a conspicuous range of 12,000 to 13,000 feet up to about latitude 28° 30', where it is merged in a vast snowy range trending east and west, which we saw at a distance.
Please communicate the substance of this telegram to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(7199)
No. 1.
134
(February 28.1
SECTION 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received February 28.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of Mr. Secretary Morley, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of inclosures in a letter from the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 18th January, relative to recent explorations on the Upper Salween.
Sir,
India Gffice, February 27, 1906,
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Government of Burmuh to Government of India.
Rangoon, January 2, 1906.
I AM directed to solicit a reference to the correspondence ending with Foreign. Department letter dated the 27th November, 1905, on the subject of the Burmah-China frontier north of latitude 25° 33'. I am now to submit, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a telegram, dated the 5th December, 1905, addressed by Mr. G. J. L. Litton, His Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul, Tengyueh, to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Yünnan and Kueichow, In the Lieutenant-Governor's regarding his explorations on the Upper Salween. opinion the geographical information gathered by Mr. Litton does not at present render necessary or expedient any revision of the views stated in my letter dated the 19th June, 1905.
I have, &c. (Signed)
S. A. SMYTH,
For Chief Secretary,
(Telegraphic.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Acting Consul Látion to Cansul-General Wilkinson.
December 5, 1905. I REACHED a point on the Salween eight marches further than highest point last spring. I also explored two new passes on the Mekong-Salween divide and one on the Salween-Irrawaddy divide. We were able to trace course of the Salween up to north latitude 27° 20, up to which point Salween is confined between series of ridges; the country is very difficult. Up to 20° 20′ there are some traces of Chinese jurisdic- tion, but the country is much disturbed by the bad conduct of the Chinese Sawbwas.
Further north there is no trace of Chinese authority up to latitude 27° 35', where Yetche territories begin. The independent tract is inhabited by Lissu under conditions of utter savagery.
Examination showed that the divide between the Salween and Irrawaddy continues to be a conspicuous range of 12,000 to 13,000 feet up to about latitude 28° 30', where it is merged in a vast snowy range trending east and west, which we saw at a distance.
Please communicate the substance of this telegram to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.
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