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No. 1.
India Office to Foreign Office.~(Received February 22.)
THE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of the Earl of Crewe, forwards berewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of a telegram from Viceroy, dated the 21st February, 1911, relative to Pien-ma.
India Office, February 22, 1911.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Government of India to the Earl of Crewe.
(Telegraphic.) P.
йРIMAW expedition (see your telegram of yesterday). We repeated to you on
February 21, 1911. the 14th instant the telegram dated the 11th February from consul at Tengyuch. The following is the telegram from the consul, dated the 14th and not the 11th February, to which we intended to refer. It was repeated to Peking :-
"Please refer to my telegram dated the 11th instant. Taotai informs me that his agreement has been unreservedly accepted by the Viceroy, and that an earnest desire for a speedy and amicable settlement of whole question of frontier has been expressed by the latter. Immediate steps have been taken by Taotai for the loyal execution of his obligations bere. This attitude appears significant after persistent hostility of past year. We are in an unusually strong position, and the opinion is respectfully submitted that a favourable opportunity for pressing for a final settlement of entire frontier line has occurred. Following points, which appear most important from local point of view, are presented for your consideration: That Chinese request for joint inspection and addition of the Chinese inscriptions to boundary pillars should be agreed to, subject to the following conditions: (1) Chinese Government first to accept the entire Burmah-Yunnan frontier line, including section north of Manang Pum following watershed between Irrawaddy and Salween as far as latitude 28° approximately, and section east of Wa country, generally known as Scott's line; (2) draft agreement attached to Litton's report of the 20th May, 1905, to be signed by Chinese; (3) China to appoint competent survey officers, or to agree to accept British officers' evidence as conclusive; (4) party, as it proceeds along unmarked sections, to erect pillars; (5) immediate recall to office of Shih Hung Chao; (6) release of Li San Pao; (7) His Majesty's Government to agree to the cession to China of such territory, if any, west of Scott's line as Chinese may, since the Boundary Commission, have brought under effective administration."
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