The Archive · 1908

Mongolia and Tibet

Proposals have been made to bring Mongolia into line with the other provinces of the Empire but no definite scheme has yet materialized. Kashgar, however, becomes an open port.

HE. Chang Yin-tang, Assistant Imperial Resident, arrived—at Lhasa on January 13 and has since urged the Peking Government to lose no time in meeting ins to the Indian may be free to proceed the reorganization of Tibet. The Ministry of War has decided to send foreign-modelled troops to garrison the country. A colonization scheme was formulated by the Szechuan authorities, but has achieved no success, and the Tibetans both on the Chinese border and in a large extent of territory generally included in China proper give little or no evidence of their allegiance to the Emperor at Peking.

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