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CO 24838
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
REC? Ref 12 AUG 10
CONFIDENTIAL.
[July 9.]
SECTION 1.
[24759]
No. 1.
1
Sir,
India Office to Foreign Office.--(Received July 9.)
India Office, July 8, 1910. IN continuation of my letter of the 29th June, 1910, as to the proceedings of the local Chinese authorities in regard to certain boundary cairns on the Burmah-China frontier, I am directed to enclose herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a letter from the Government of India on the subject.*
As regards the demolition by the Prefect of Yung-Chang of a supplementary pillar between boundary cairns Nos. 14 and 15, you have already been informed in my letter of the 29th June of Viscount Morley's concurrence in Sir E. Grey's proposal to approve the action taken by His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking, as reported in his despatch No. 137, dated the 4th May, 1910.
With regard to the objections raised by the Prefect to the position of boundary cairns Nos. 9-14, Lord Morley would suggest that Mr. Max Müller might be instructed to bring the matter to the notice of the Chinese Government, and to inform them that His Majesty's Government can in no circumstances allow the accuracy of these cairns, which has been unchallenged for ten years, to be called in question.
Subject to Sir E. Grey's concurrence, Lord Morley proposes to accept the Government of India's conclusion that no useful purpose would be served by authorising His Majesty's consul at Tengyuch to discuss the undemarcated portions of the Burmah-China frontier with the Prefect of Yung-Chang.
I am,
&c.
R. RITCHIE.
* Not printed.
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