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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
392 THE ATTITUDE OF THE TIBETANS
frontier on the 21st, and that same day reached Gnatong,
on the British side.
With the British Trade Agent at Yatung he left a
message saying that it was his intention to go to India to
consult the British Government. He had appointed a
Regent and Acting Minister at Lhasa, but he and the
Ministers who accompanied him had their seals with them.
He looked to the British for protection, and trusted that
the relations between the British Government and Tibet
would be that of a father to his children.
The Viceroy sent instructions to the authorities at
Darjiling to show him every courtesy on his arrival there,
about the 27th, but to treat his visit as private. The
effect of the flight of the Lama and his Ministers, not only
in Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan, but also on Indian opinion,
would, Lord Minto said, be profound, for in all these
countries he was regarded with veneration and awe. He
thought it of the first importance, therefore, to treat the
Dalai Lama with high consideration.
At Darjiling, on March 3, Mr. Bell, the Political
Officer in Sikkim, had an interview with him. The Lama
rose from his seat to receive Mr. Bell, and shook hands with
him. He asked him to telegraph and thank the Viceroy
for the arrangements for the comfort of himself and his
party. Then, when he had dismissed his attendants and
given an account of his flight and his reasons fôr leaving
Lhasa, he told Mr. Bell that when Ugyen Kazi, the Bhutan
agent, had presented him with Lord Curzon's letter, before
the time of the Mission, he would not receive it, since he
had agreed with the Chinese to conduct his foreign affairs
through Chinese intermediaries only. In like manner,
when I had written to him in the course of the Tibet
Mission, the Chinese refused to let him send a reply.
Now the Chinese had broken their promises, as already
related, and he had come to India for the purpose of asking
the help of the British against the Chinese. He stated
that unless the British Government intervened, China
would occupy 'Tibet and oppress it, would destroy the
Buddhist religion there and the Tibetan Government, and
would govern the country by Chinese officials. Eventually,
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