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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
48 THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS
This is a very essential fact to bear in mind in the
consideration of the Tibetan question—that after both
Tibetan and Chinese susceptibilities had been given way
to on every occasion, it was the Tibetans who invaded us.
It was a Bhutanese invasion of the plains of Bengal,
followed by a letter from the Tashi Lama, that had
initiated our relations with Tibet in the time of Warren
Hastings. And it was this invasion of Sikkim that forced
upon us the regularization of our relations with the
Tibetans.
When the Tibetans thus invaded the territory of our
feudatory, we should have been well within our right in
forthwith expelling them by force ; but, in accordance
with the policy of forbearance we had so consistently
pursued, we referred the matter to the Chinese, and
requested them to procure the withdrawal of the' Tibetans.
We also allowed the Chinese ample time, a year, within
which to bring their influence to bear. Then, at the end
of 1887, we wrote to the 'Tibetan commander that unless
he evacuted his position before March 15, 1888, he would
be expelled by force. This letter was returned unopened.
In February we wrote to the Dalai Lama himself to the
same effect, but again we received no reply. It was only
on March 20, 1888, that a British force assumed the
offensive, and advanced upon the Tibetans in the position
they had occupied within our frontier at Lengtu.
The Tibetans, for the time being, offered no resistance,
and retired to Chumbi, on their own side of the frontier,
and our troops occupied a position at Gnatong, on our
side. Two months later, however, the 'Tibetans again
showed truculence, and with 3,000 men attacked our
camp at Gnatong. They were repulsed, and once more
withdrew. But in September they, for the third time,
advanced across our border, and in a single night, with
that skill in building for which they are so remarkable,
threw up a wall three miles long and from 3 to 4 feet high
in a position just above Gnatong, and some miles within
our border.
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