The failure was due, once more, to the difficulty of delimiting boundaries. China claimed that she hed a right to retain Kokonor, reasonable claim in view of the fact that it was never greatly disturbed by the fighting of 1912 and 1913 and has long figured on the map as part of Chinese territory. But she went on to claim that she should retain control of all the territory up to and inclusive of Chiamdo, on the ground that she had some 6,000 to 8,000 troops there, 'a reason which entirely overlooked the repeated defeats of her forces the persistence of Tibetan opposition and existing Treaties with Great. Britain. The net result of the past year therefore, is that we are as far off from a settlement of the question as ever.
The names and dates of previous! inslaiments in this survey of affairs in 1914 were:—Peking Politi
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