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Sir John Jordan, the British Minister at Peking, has addressed

a memorandum to the Chinese Government with regard to the Chinese intention of incorporating Tibet as a province of the Republic. The memorandum urges that the Tibetans should be allowed to manage their own domestic affairs, while a Chinese representative might be stationed at Lhasa to advise them on foreign policy. The representative should have a bodyguard, but China should not maintain an indefinite force in Tibet, nor should it allow the expedition now on its way to Tibet to proceed. A new agreement between Great Britain and China is demanded, and this is made a condition of the recognition of the Chinese Republic by the British Government.

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