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THE MAKING OF THE NORTH-EAST FRONTIER.

PART II.: GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

the preceding chapter I have outlined the history of Anglo-Chinese relations on the Burmese marches up to the present day. The part played by France in the events which led up to the annexation of Upper Burma has been mentioned, and in order to complete the sketch of the building of the frontier, it is necessary to pass in brief review the action of that Power in this part of Asia, since, for the whole of an anxious decade, she stood boldly in the way of the peaceful moulding of India's eastern frontier.

In judging of French action in Indo-China it must not be forgotten that she had at one time