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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
TIBETANS REMOVE BOUNDARY PILLARS 59
pillar at the Donchukla, to be afterwards inspected by the
Chinese.
At this time Mr. White also received a letter from the
Amban, saying that a day for the beginning of the work
having been decided upon, it was, of course, proper that a
commencement should be made on that day, and he had
already received the consent of the Tibetan State Council
to that end. But the Lamas of the three great monas-
teries, the Amban proceeded to explain, were still full of
suspicion, and were pressing certain matters upon him,
which made it necessary for him to enlighten them further.
He therefore requested Mr. White kindly to postpone
commencing work for a time, in order to avoid trouble on
this point. But Mr. White replied that his letter had
arrived too late, as the work of demarcation had already
commenced before its receipt, and he urged Government
to grant no further delay, for the Chinese had had five years
since the treaty was signed within which to settle with
the Tibetans.
The Government of India, however, thought that no
serious inconvenience had apparently arisen through the
frontier being undemarcated, and that if the Chinese
delegate failed to meet him at the Dokala on or about
June 1, he should write to the Chinese Resident, explain-
ing that he had proceeded so far under arrangements with
the Chinese deputies at the Jelap-la ; but as they had not
joined him, he would return to Gantok. He was further
to ask the Resident whether work could be jointly pro-
ceeded with that season, and giving latest dates for
recommencement.
A few days later came the news that the pillar which
Mr. White had erected on the Jelap-la had been de-
molished by the '.Tibetans, and the stoneware slab on
which the number of the pillar had been inscribed had
been removed by them. And on June 11 Mr. White
telegraphed that the pillar he had erected on the
Donchuk-la had been wilfully damaged, and as this was
an unfrequented pass he considered the outrage must be
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