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0091	India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1

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India and Tibet : vol.1

インドとチベット : vol.1

RESULT OF FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE 65

and misgivings," and it would be best therefore that they

should personally inspect the line of demarcation men-

tioned in the treaty," though a Tibetan representative had

been with the Chinese Ambarl when the Convention was

made, and had ample opportunity during the years that

agreement took in negotiating to inspect and to give the

views of his Government upon it. And so it resulted

that when, at the conclusion of five years from the signing

of the Trade Regulations, the Secretary of State asked the

Government of India for a full report, both on the

progress made since the date of that agreement towards

the settlement of the frontier, and on the extent to which

the trade stipulations of the treaty and Convention had

been operative," the Bengal Government had to reply*

that the boundary between Sikkim and Tibet, as laid

down in Article I. of the Convention, had not yet been

demarcated, owing to the refusal of the Tibetans to abide

by the terms of the Convention, and to their claiming a

tract of land to the north of Donkya-la, Giagong, and the

Lonakh Valley ; and that the trade stipulations contained

in the Regulations, had been inoperative. The Tibetans

had prevented Yatung becoming a real trade-mart ; abso-

lutely no business was transacted there, and it was merely

a registering post for goods passing between Tibet and

India, and the proclamation of the place as a mart had in

no way influenced the trade between the two countries,

for what small increase there was appeared to be mainly

due to, and might have been expected from, the restora-

tion of peace between the British Government and Tibet.

This was the net result of the policy of conciliation

and forbearance towards the 'Tibetans and of reliance on

the Chinese Central Government, which had been pursued

from 1873.

* Blue-book, p. 92.

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