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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
62 THE CONVENTION W ITH CHINA
paign—and he urged that we should now insist that we
would protect our own interests if China could not carry
out her engagements.*
These, in the light of future events, appear reasonable
and sensible proposals ; but the Government of India, in
pursuance of their policy of forbearance and moderation,
would not accept them. They ordered Mr. White
definitely to return to Gantok. They noticed that the
returns of trade between British territory and 'Tibet
showed a marked increase, and they hoped that the
continued exercise of moderation and patience would
gradually remove 'Tibetan suspicions as to our aims and
policy.
A few months after this was written, in November of
1895, h'Ir. Nolan, the Commissioner of Darjiling, an officer
who had for many years been conversant with the
Tibetan question, and who held civil charge of that
division of Bengal which adjoins Sikkim and Bhutan, and
who supervised our relations with those two States as well
as our trade with 'Tibet, visited Yatung, and had conver-
sations with Chinese and 'Tibetan local officials. His
report of the state of affairs there is one of the most inter-
esting published.t He found that the imposition of the
10 per cent. duty at Phari was no new exaction, but had
existed for a long time. He found, also, that the reason
the 'Tibetans did not meet Mr. White in the previous
summer to delimit the boundary was that they wished
the general line of the frontier should be agreed upon, in
the first instance, with reference to maps, and the ground
visited only after this was done. But he found, too,
that the Tibetans repudiated the treaty. The Chief
Steward," the sole Commissioner on the part of the
'Tibetan Government for reporting on the frontier matter,
made the important statement that the Tibetans did
not consider themselves bound by the Convention with
China, as they were not a party to it." He reported further,
that the Tibetans had prevented the formation of a mart
* Blue-book, p. 44. f Ibid., p. 54.
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