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however, not object to the adoption of a compromise on Namting-Nalawt section if, in return for a concession there, His Majesty's Government can secure Chinese Government's full consent to the Salween-Shweli-Irrawaddy divide as the boundary further north, with possibly a more satisfactory attitude in respect of other outstanding questions. Following might, we consider, be ceded to China, if latter is prepared to accept such a solution:-
Country east of Namkha River, i.e., Mong Hka estuary, where Chinese posts are in occupation.
Boundary from head of the Namkha River might follow either of three following lines, whichever may be found most convenient in dealing with Chinese Government. Least demarcation would be involved by third line, which would also, apparently, best comply with wording of Convention :-
1. Line suggested by Burmah Government; see map inclosed with their letter of the 19th October, 1906.
2. Line proposed by Shih Taotai.
3. Shih Taotai's line as far as about 23° latitude and 99° 40′ longitude. Thence- forward Scott's line northwards.
(Repeated to Peking.)
SOUTH-WEST CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.-(Received May 7.)
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[May 7.]
SECTION 1.
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 21st March, relative to affairs of the Burmah-China frontier in the Nmai-ka region.
India Office, May 6, 1907.
Inclosure 1 in No. 1.
Sir,
Government of Burmah to Government of India.
Rangoon, February 18, 1907. I AM directed to solicit a reference to the correspondence ending with your endorsement dated the 24th December, 1906, and to submit, for the information of the Government of India, a copy of a letter, dated the 19th January, 1907, from Mr. H. A. Ottewill, Acting British Consul, Tengyueh, on the subject of the increase in taxes imposed by the Tengkeng Sawbwa on coffin-wood coming from Pien-ma.
2. The Lieutenant-Governor concurs with Mr. Ottewill in regarding this incident as an indication of the expediency of effecting an early settlement of the boundary between Burmah and China north of latitude 25° 35'.*
I have, &c. (Signed)
A. LEEDS.
Sir,
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Acting Consul Ottewill to Government of Burmah.
Tengyueh, January 19, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to inclose to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the increase in taxes by the Tengkeng Sawbwa on coffin-wood coming from Pien-ma, west of the Salween-Irrawaddy Divide.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
II. A. OTTEWILL.
Inclosure 3 in No. 1.
(No. 4.)
Sir,
Acting Consul Ottewill to Sir J. Jordan.
Tengyuch, January 19, 1907, I HAVE the honour to report that in November 1906 some Tengyueh merchants handed me a Petition complaining of new taxes imposed by the Tu Ssu (Sawbwa) of Tengkeng (in the Salween Valley, latitude 26°) on their trade in coffin-boards and "huang lien "in the Pien-ma (Hpimaw) district on the Nmai-Hka side of the Salween- Irrawaddy Divide.
As you are aware, the relations between the Pien-ma villages and the Tengkeng Tu Ssu were detailed at length in the late Mr. Litton's Report on the undelimited
* s., north of Manung Pum.
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