London vii Bombay, 19th September.
Reuter's correspondent at Lhassa wires that the departure of the British force is fixed for the 23rd instant.—Reuter.
20th September.
Mr. Brodrick, Secretary of State for India, speaking at Bramley, justified the Tibet expedition.
The convention, he said, while recognizing the suzerainty of Chine, secured our trade rights, and also an indemnity, coupled with the oceupation for a sufficient time of @ portion of the Chumbi Valley.
We have carefully kept our pledges not to permanently occupy Tibetan territory, and not to exercise permanent interference in the internal affairs of Tibet.
If the Cabinet were as effete as depicted, we could not have come so satisfactorily out of this business, the final settlement whereof depended largely on communication with Lon dov,—Reuter.
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