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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
76 SECURING THE TREATY RIGHTS
Tibet for 1,000 miles, from Kashmir nearly to Burma, the
Russian border nowhere touched or even approached
Tibet. The whole breadth of Chinese 'Turkestan lay
in between the Russian frontier and the nearest frontier of
Tibet, and Lhasa itself was 1,000 miles distant from the
nearest point on the Russian frontier. To appreciate the
position, let the reader draw out the map at the end of this
volume.
The Government of India, accordingly, recommended
prompt action. The attempts to negotiate an under-
standing with the Tibetans through the Chinese had
proved a failure. It had been found impossible to open
up direct communications with the 'Tibetans. The result
of the exclusion of the 'Tibetans from the pasture lands at
Giagong, though it had materially improved our position
on the border, was not in effect more than a timely
assertion of British authority upon the spot. These
different rumours from such varied sources tending, in the
opinion of the Government of India, to indicate the
existence of some kind of an arrangement between Russia
and 'Tibet, necessitated dealing with the situation far more
drastically and decisively than it had ever been dealt with
before. Continuously since 1873 the Government of
India had been trying by every correct and reasonable
method to regularize their intercourse with Tibet. Their
patience was now exhausted, and, instead of trifling about
on the frontier with petty Chinese or 'Tibetan officials,
they proposed, in the very important despatch of January 8,
1903,* to send a mission, with an armed escort, to Lhasa
itself, there to settle our future relations with Tibet, and
to permanently establish a British representative.
This proposal, when it reached England, seems to have
caused considerable surprise. But Warren Hastings, a
century before, had meant to do this very thing ; and
the Russians had a Consular representative in Chinese
Turkestan alongside their frontier, so there seemed no
particular reason why we should not have had a similar
representative in Tibet alongside our frontier. The
risk had to be considered, it is true, but why the case of
* Blue-book, p. 152.
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