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APPENDIX K

Page 145 of "Papers Relating to Tibet, 1904."

Despatch from Sir C. Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne,
dated St. Petersburgh, October 2, 1902. (Received
October 6.)

(Extract)

The Chinese Minister, who called on me to-day, told me,
in the course of conversation, that several of my colleagues
had been making enquiries of him respecting a pretended
text of Agreement between Russia and China in regard to
Tibet, which had appeared in several continental as well as
Russian newspapers. He said that he had first seen this
apocryphal text in the Chinese newspapers, and that its very
form and wording showed that it could not be of Chinese
origin. He asked me if it could possibly have been credited
as genuine by Sir Ernest Satow. I said that I did not think
that Sir E. Satow attached much credit to it, and probably
regarded it as a "ballon d'essai," started in non-official
Russian quarters, but that the text had undoubtedly been
circulated and had reached the Indian Government, and that
the Chinese Government would no doubt easily be able to
satisfy themselves that the Indian Government would cer-
tainly not be indifferent to any alteration in the present
status and relations of a country so near to their frontiers as
Tibet.

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