CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906 — Page 657

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# SOUTH-WEST CHINA

**CONFIDENTIAL**

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[September 6.]

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(No. 307.) Sir,

No. 1.

Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Carnegie,

REC REE 18 SEP 06

Foreign Office, September 6, 1906. LORD LANSDOWNE'S despatch No. 217 of the 27th September, 1905, to Sir Ernest Satow inclosed copy of a letter from the India Office, containing proposals of the Government of India to abandon all Hunza claims to Raskam and to the Tagh-dumbash on certain conditions. It was also stated in that despatch that the Secretary of State for India was prepared not to press for immediate action in the matter pending the conclusion of the negotiations for the adhesion of China to the Lhassa Convention of September 1904.

I shall be glad to know whether you consider the present moment opportune for approaching the Chinese Government with a view to obtaining a settlement of these questions.

You will no doubt by now have acted upon the instructions contained in my telegram No. 150 of the 20th ultimo in regard to the recognition of Mr. Macartney as Consul at Kashgar.

I am, &c.

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(Signed)

EDWARD GREY