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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
70 SECURING THE TREATY RIGHTS
Lamsdorff we had received his assurance with satisfaction,
as any proceedings that might have a tendency to alter or
disturb the existing status of 'Tibet, would be a movement
in which His Majesty's Government could not acquiesce.
This suggestion was adopted, and on September 2, 1901,
our Ambassador informed. Count Lamsdorff that His
Majesty's Government would naturally not regard with
indifference any proceedings that might have a tendency
to alter or disturb the existing status in Tibet. The
Russian Minister repeated his assertion that the mission
was chiefly concerned with matters of religion, and had
no political or diplomatic object or character."
For the time being the Government of India itselt
took no action in regard to this new factor, though in
concluding a despatch to the Secretary of State on
February 13 of the following year (1902) they declared
that it was desirable that the unsatisfactory situation
in 'Tibet should be brought to an end with as little delay
and commotion as possible, since there were factors in the
case which, at a later date, might invest the breakdown
of the unnatural barriers of 'Tibetan isolation with a wider
and more serious significance.
They continued to plod steadily along at the settle-
ment of the frontier, and corresponded with the Secretary
of State and the Bengal Chamber of Commerce about the
introduction of tea to Tibet now that the five years, during
which it was to be excluded had expired. But they
acted with much more decision than previously, and
instead of waiting year after year for the arrival of
Chinese or 'Tibetan deputies to meet our representatives,
they sent Mr. White, in the summer of 1902, to Giagong,
to reassert British rights to the tract of country which the
Tibetans had been occupying in contravention of the
treaty of 1890, and, if necessary, to expel them from the
British side of the frontier. Mr. White had suggested
that an effective and simple way would be to occupy the
Chumbi Valley, but the Government of India, though
they considered grounds for strong action were far from
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