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0085 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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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