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covering the whole section of the road from
Kulikha to Lungchang, and not only from
Kulikha to Mansein, and the Burma Govern
ment, in consequence, decided to utilise any sav
ings there might be on the work from Kulikha
to Mansein for the improvement of the track to
Lungchang. They further proposed that a good
mule track should be constructed from Manim
to Tengyueh, at an estimated cost of 3 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees ,
to be paid by the Government of India. The
Government of India replied that nothing could
he decided until they heard from the Secretary
of State about the proposed survey of the route
for a railway between Bhamo and Tengyueh.
In December 1904, the Government of Burma
reported that they had accepted a proposal to
divert temporarily a sum of Bs. 1,000 from
the instalments payable by the Chinese Gov
ernment on account of the Kulikha road, in
order that it might be applied in repairing the
worst part of the road between Tengyueh and
Talifu. On the 30th of August 1905, the
Government of Burma recommended, on the
representation of the merchants of Tengyueh,
the reduction of the surtax of *25 of a tael
fixed for the purpose of meeting the cost of the
portion of the road constructed by the Govern
ment of Burma to TO of a tael. The Govern
ment of India sanctioned the proposal.
27. In July 1905, the Government of
Burma addressed the Government of India
concerning the policy to be pursued in respect
of raids and other outrages committed by the
Chins living in the tract not administered by
British officers. The Local Government for
warded a report from the Superintendent of
the Chin Hills, bringing to notice that three
residents of an administered village called
Lungno had been seized and killed in un
administered territory; that their fellow-
villagers were much incensed and anxious to
make reprisals, and that the Superintendent
would have difficulty in restraining them,
unless he were authorised to say that the
matter would receive consideration at the
hands of Government. The Lieutenant-Gov
ernor stated that in his opinion it was desirable
to modify the policy hitherto followed in respect
of the administered tract of the Chin Hills
under which the British Government accepted
no responsibility for the protection of life and
property beyond the administrative line of
British territory, wherever it might be fixed.
He urged that it was intolerable that peaceful
British subjects should not be able to travel
in safety in the unadministered tract, but
should be liable to be kidnapped, held in
slavery, tortured, and murdered, and asked that
the Burma Government might be permitted
to authorise its officers to cross the adminis
trative frontier of the Arakan Hills the
Pakokko Chin Hills, and the Chin Hills proper
either to exact satisfaction for a raid or to
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