'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎69r] (142/228)

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all letters are examined in the bi^ monastew
interests 1 ^/ prejudfeial to the
ntcrosts ot the people of Batang is destroyed.
A * t 0 '. p ha . k " r J , ai Chand, the British Trade
fair heU of B n S flen Tisitin S the annual
about the Lvi^ ba r 0 T nS ’ which commences
end of J dv H J T and lasts u ? t0 tke
end of July He reports that people of the
Altnora district and of Badrinath in the
Garhwal district attend this fair, and have on
<ollowi " 8 " , ” k *
Coral, to the value of ... Kg. 750
Broadcloth, to the value of” „ * 300
Cotton-goods, to the value of „ 700
Total ... E s . 1,750
He adds that 32 boxes of tea, valued
at Bs. 1,920, have been received from Lhasa
for sale, and that the traders from India have
purchased wool, worth Rs. 931, and 1,762
kacha maunds of salt for export to India.
The Agent intends visiting other fairs
which are held at Gyanema and Grersa.
The former lasts from the middle to the
end of July, and the latter commences in
August. Thakur Jai Chand intended reaching
Gyanema in time to meet Mr. Sherring, the
Deputy Commissioner of Almora, who was
expected to arrive there about the 15th of July
(see paragraph 1 of the Memorandum for June
1905).
11. Fide paragraph 1 of the Memoran
dum for May 1905. On the 6th July 1905,
the Minister at Peking telegraphed that
the Chinese Commissioner had informed his
Government that there was no prospect
whatever of coming to any satisfactory
conclusion with the Government of India in
regard to the Tibet Treaty. The Chinese
Government have represented to Sir E. Satow
that outside comment may be provoked if
the negotiations continue to drag on without
result, and that such agitation would he dis
advantageous to both countries, and have asked
him for a suggestion as to the best course
to pursue. They state that they are prepared
to favour a transfer of the negotiations to
London, in which case Tang Tachen, the
Chinese Commissioner and Plenipotentiary,
would be instructed to proceed thither, or to
Peking, where the matter could be negotiated
between the British Minister and Prince
Ching. Sir E. Satow suggests that His
Majesty’s Government might either take the
line that, in default of the arrangement
proposed by the Government of India, they
would prefer to do without any agreement
with China, or they might intimate that, if
Prince Ching likes to resume his conver
sation with the Minister at the point where