The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . fall of Chamdo the greater part of the oldSzechuan Frontier Force {Pien Cliiin), which hadgarrisoned the border since the days of Chao Erh-feng, had ceased to exist. Two or three thousandChinese prisoners of war were marched off toLhasa, where they were well treated, judging by cessation of hostilities, and the
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history . fall of Chamdo the greater part of the oldSzechuan Frontier Force {Pien Cliiin), which hadgarrisoned the border since the days of Chao Erh-feng, had ceased to exist. Two or three thousandChinese prisoners of war were marched off toLhasa, where they were well treated, judging by cessation of hostilities, and the mutual withdrawalof the troops of both sides out of touch with oneanother. The provisional boundary between Szech-uan and Tibet resulting from these frontier nego-tiations chanced to coincide to a considerable ex-tent with the old seventeenth century line of theManchus, the Chinese remaining in control ofBatang, Litang, Nyarong, Kanze and the countryto the east of those States, while the Tibetansretained Chamdo, Draya, Markam and De-ge, andthe country further west. By the end of iqi8 thefrontier regions had settled down after the conclu-sion of the truce, the trade routes had been re-opened, and peaceful relations generally had oncemore been resumed between China and Tibet.—. MAP OF TIBET SHOWING DK ik ? kou- oriental standards, and whence they were subse-quently repatriated to West China . . with theassistance of the British Authorities, via India,Burma, and Yunnan. ... By the middle of thesummer of igi8, ... the Lhasa forces [were prac-tically] in possession of all the country up toTachienlu. At this juncture, however, the localChinese leaders on the frontier invoked the media-tion of the British Consular Agent stationed inWestern China, whose duty it was to watch eventson the border with a view to keeping the peacebetween the two parties pending a final settle-ment of the dispute by diplomatic means, and,the Tibetan leaders having been persuaded to staytheir advance,
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