Reuter learns that there is every probability that the British occupation of the Chumbi valley will continue for seventy-five years, while the indemnity is being paid at the rate of a lac of rupees annually.
It is now known that the Amban refused to sign the Treaty at the last moment, saying that Chinese sovereignty was insufficiently recognised, He was thereupon told that. sovereignty also implied res pope y, and moreover that Great britain had not spent a million sterling for nothing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.