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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
CHAPTER VII
NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA
I WOULD again recall the fact that when the Government
of India wrote the above-quoted despatch, Russia was not
yet at war with Japan, and was very much in the
ascendant and active in Asia. She had recently occupied
Port Arthur, and run a railway through Manchuria ; and
she was in a dominant, almost domineering, position at
Peking. And as showing the interest she took in Tibet,
there came, ,just after the receipt by the India Office of
Lord Curzon's despatch, a representation from the Russian
Chargé d'Affaires in London, founded apparently upon
our very humble efforts of the previous summer within
our own frontier. In this representation, which was made
in the form of a memorandum* communicated to the
Foreign Office, it was stated that, according to the infor-
mation which the Russian Government had received from
an authoritative source, a British military expedition had
reached Komba-Ovaleko, on its way north by the Chumbi
Valley, and that the Russian Government would consider
such an expedition to Tibet as likely to produce a situation
of considerable gravity, which might oblige them to take
measures to protect their interests in those regions.
It was impossible to trace what place was intended
by Iiomba-Qvaleko. Mr. White and his little escort of
150 men had never gone outside the limits of Sikkim,
and had long since returned to their headquarters. There
was no difficulty, then, in giving the Russian Ambassador
the assurance that this " authoritative " information was
without the smallest foundation. And Lord Lansdowne
went further than merely refuting the false information.
* Blue-book, p. 178.
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