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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
TIBETANS BREAK THE CONVENTION 55
either sheltered themselves behind the Chinese or said that
they had no orders to give any answer for Lhasa, and
could only report.
Mr. White's immediate superior, the Commissioner
of the Rajshahi Division, agreed with him that the
levying of a duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem at Phari
was a clear breach of the main article of the Trade
Convention. He contended that by Article IV. of the
Regulations it is provided that goods entering Tibet for
British India across the Sikkim-Tibet frontier, or vice versa,
shall be exempt from duty for a period of five years, and
that this meant a general exemption from all duties,
wherever imposed, the place of realization being altogether
irrelevant. He recommended, therefore, that this breach
of the main article of the treaty, to which all the other
provisions were ancillary, should be made the subject of a
representation to the Chinese Government.
The Government of Bengal took the same view. They
thought the levy of the duty at Phari undoubtedly
seemed to be inconsistent with the terms of the treaty,
which provided for free trade for a period of five
years. And the Lieutenant-Governor felt that no time
should be lost in making this matter the subject of a
representation to the Government of China.
And in this view our Minister at Peking, Mr.
(afterwards Sir Nicholas) O'Conor, Ambassador at St.
Petersburg and Constantinople, thoroughly concurred, and
suggested to the Viceroy that the imposition of a 10 per
cent. ad valorem duty at Phari should be very strongly
protested against as contrary to treaty stipulations.
The Government of India, however, recognizing the
necessity for extreme patience in dealing with the Tibetans,
decided that it would be premature to make any formal
complaint of their obstructiveness."* They wrote to the
Government of Bengal that The information in regard to
the levy of duty at Phari and to the obstructiveness of the
Tibetans was certainly unsatisfactory, but the Regulations
* Blue-book, p. 24.
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