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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
124 KHAMBA JONG
I told them that, in the first place, they also had
broken the treaty by crossing the boundary fixed in it and
occupying Giagong ; and, in the second place, we must
regard Tibetans as all one people, and hold all responsible
for the actions of each.
The impression left upon me by this interview, I
reported at the time, was that the Tibetans, though exces-
sively childish, were very pleasant, cheery people, and,
individually, probably quite well disposed towards us.
Mr. Wilton, of the China Consular Service, joined us
on August 7. He had been acting as Consul at Chengtu,
in Szechuan, and I had not spoken to him for more than
five minutes before I realized what a help he would be to
us. He at once said that neither the Chinese nor the a
Tibetan delegates were of at all sufficient rank or authority
to conduct negotiations with us, and no one else than one
of the Ambans and one of the Tibetan Councillors would
be of any use. The new Chinese Resident, who had been
deputed in the previous December specially for the pur-
pose of conducting these negotiations he had himself seen
at Chengtu, and it is significant of the dilatoriness of the
Chinese that, while Mr. Wilton reached me early in
August, the Resident did not reach Lhasa till the next
February, thirteen months after he had set out from
Peking.
Having received Mr. Wilton's advice regarding the
status of the delegates, the Viceroy, on August 25, wrote
to the Chinese Resident, suggesting that either he himself
or his Associate Resident should meet me, and that, as the
present Tibetan delegates had shown themselves entirely
unsuited for diplomatic intercourse, and would not even
accept the copy of the speech explanatory of the relations
between India and Tibet which I had made, he proposed
that the Tibetan Government should be invited to depute
a Councillor of the Dalai Lama, accompanied by a high
member of the National Assembly.
As regards the objection which the Resident had made
to the selection of Khamba Jong as the meeting-place,
Lord Curzon said that it was the nearest point in Tibet
to the disputed boundary ; and it was necessary that the
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