TIBET INDEMNITY.
LAST INSTALMENT PAID. B/ Te'fjrraph.— Press Association Copyright. (Received January 29, 8.27 a.m.) LONDON, 28th January. Tho last instalment of Che Tibet indemnity has been paid. Under the treaty between Tibet and Britain, which followed Colonel Younghusband's expedition of 1903-4, Tibet agreed to pay an indemnity of £500,000 in seventy-five half-yearly instalments, beginning on Ist January, 1906, Britain meanwhile occupying the Chumbi valley as security. The British Government subsequently decided that £166,666 should be the amount of the indemnity, and that the occupation of territoiy chould ccu&o utter tlirtu annual instalments ha.d bean £a}d« " ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1908, Page 7
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96TIBET INDEMNITY. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1908, Page 7
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