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0438 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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pressure to bear on the Chinese Resident in order to secure
reparation. There is, however, at present no evidence that
the mischief is to be directly attributed to Tibetan officials,
and it is in our opinion necessary to make allowances for the
difficulties of the Chinese Resident's position in respect to
the Tibetans.

(B)

*Letter from the Government of India, in the Foreign De-
partment, to the Right Honourable Lord George F.
Hamilton, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India,
dated Simla, the 3rd September, 1895. (Received the
23rd September, 1895.)*

Our Despatch, dated the 25th June, 1895, informed Her
Majesty's Government of the position of affairs on the
Sikkim-Tibet border. We have since been in further corre-
spondence with Sir Nicholas O'Conor, and on the 10th August
instructions were issued that our demarcation party should
break up and that Mr. White should return to Gantok.
2. The Chinese Resident in Tibet suggested postpone-
ment of demarcation until after five years from the date on
which the Trade Regulations attached to the Convention of
1890 came into force. His Excellency the Viceroy has de-
clared his inability to seriously discuss such a suggestion and
has communicated to the Chinese Resident a hope that
nothing will prevent the work being carried out amicably
next year.

(C)

*From the Viceroy to the Secretary of State for India, dated
15th February, 1896.*

*(Telegraphic)*

Please see our letter of 3rd September, 1895, and your
despatch of 6th December, 1895. There are grounds for be-
lieving that the Tibetans possess reasonable claims in the
extreme north of Sikkim to a tract of land which is excluded
from Tibet by the boundary line laid down in the Convention.
The tract in question is of no value to Sikkim. Would you