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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
60 THE CONVENTION WITH CHINA
deliberate. He subsequently stated that the numbered
slab here also had been taken away, and that the destruc-
tion of the pillar was most probably the work of three
Lamas sent from Lhasa to watch the proceedings of the
Tibetan Commissioners at Yatung.
This was brought to the notice of the Chinese Resident
by the Viceroy, and a reply was received that the Council
of State had sent no orders for the destruction of the
pillar, and that he had given orders that a strict examina-
tion should be made into the affair, and the people
who stole the slab from the pillar be severely punished.
At the same time, the Amban suggested that the work of
delimiting the frontier should be postponed until after
the expiry of the free period when the treaty was to be
revised."
When informed of this proposal, our Minister at Peking
stated his opinion that it would be best to be firm in the
refusal of a postponement, and he solicited the Viceroy's
authority to repeat to the Chinese Government what he
had previously informed them, that, if obliged, the British
Commissioner would proceed alone.
The Bengal Government also urged that Mr. White
should be authorized to proceed with his own men alone
to lay down the boundary and set up pillars on the passes
along the eastern frontier where no dispute was known to
exist." But the Lieutenant-Governor was informed that
the Government of India were not prepared to insist upon
the early demarcation of the frontier, and directed that
Mr. White should return to Gantok forthwith, or, at any,
rate withdraw at once from the immediate neighbourhood
of the border.
The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Charles Elliott, acknow-
ledged that it was difficult for Mr. White to remain
indefinitely in his camp on the frontier, but declared that
it was impossible to disguise the fact that a return to
Gantok practically meant the abandonment of the demar-
cation. He believed that the authorities in Peking were
anxious that the delimitation should continue without
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