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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
54 THE CONVENTION WITH CHINA
exceedingly badly chosen." It will be remembered that it
was chosen by the Tibetans, and simply accepted by us
out of deference to their feelings. It was at the bottom
of a narrow valley, shut in by steep hills, with no room
for expansion. He further reported that the godowns
(stores), or shops, built for the trade would answer the
purpose of native shops, but were quite inadequate for the
storage of goods or for the use of European merchants,
and that the rent proposed was exorbitant, being Rs. 25 a
month, when a fair rent would be from Rs. 4 to Rs. 5. He
found the Tibetans most discourteous and obstructive,
and he believed that the Lhasa authorities had issued
orders that the free-trade clauses of the treaty were not
to be carried out. The local official at Phari, at the head
of the Chumbi Valley, charged 10 per cent. on all goods
passing through Phari, both imports and exports ; and
this action, in Mr. White's opinion, certainly did away
with any freedom of trade, as provided for in the treaty,
for it wras obviously useless to have provided by treaty
that Indian goods should be allowed to enter Tibet free
of duty if a few miles inside the frontier, and on the only
road into Tibet, a heavy duty was to be imposed upon
them.
Mr. White also reported that the Chinese, though
friendly to him, and apparently willing to help, had " no
authority whatever." They admitted that the treaty was
not being carried out in a proper spirit, and Mr. White
gathered that the Tibetans actually repudiated it, and
asserted that it was signed by the British Government and
the Chinese, and therefore they had nothing to do with it.
In any case, they maintained that they had a right to
impose what taxes they chose at Phari so long as goods
were allowed to pass Yatung free. The Chinese con-
fessed that they were not able to manage the Tibetans. I
The Tibetans would not obey them, and the Chinese
were afraid to give any orders. China was suzerain over
Tibet only in name, was Mr. White's conclusion. Nego-
tiation was, therefore, he said, most difficult, for though the
Chinese agreed to any proposal, they were quite unable to
answer for the Tibetans, and the 'Tibetans, when spoken to,
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