IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
TIBETANS ASSEMBLE TROOPS 129
winter, when our communications would be cut off. Their
immediate policy was one of passive obstruction. They
had made up their minds to have no negotiations with us
inside Tibet, and they would simply leave us at Khamba
Jong, while if we tried to advance farther, they would
oppose us by force. They were afraid that if they gave
us an inch we would take an ell, and if they allowed us at
Khamba Jong one year we should go to Shigatse the next,
and Lhasa the year after. So they were determined to
stop us at the start.
'The Shigatse Abbot had, I heard, done his best to
make the Lhasa officials take a more reasonable view, but
without success. The Lhasa officials were entirely ruled
by the National Assembly at Lhasa, and this Assembly
was composed chiefly of Lhasa monks.
It was difficult to understand why there was all this
trouble about negotiating at Khamba Jong, for the
Chinese Government had informed our Minister at
Peking on July 19 that the Imperial Resident had
now arranged with the Dalai Lama to appoint two
Tibetan officials of fairly high standing to proceed with
the Prefect Ho to Khamba to meet Major Younghusband
and Mr. White, and discuss with them what steps are to
be taken." The Chinese Government added that they
trusted it would be possible to effect a speedy and
friendly settlement of this long-standing dispute, and
requested Mr. Townley to acquaint his Government by
telegraph with the contents of this communication, so
that Major Younghusband and Mr. White might be
instructed to open negotiations in a friendly spirit with
the Tibetan and other delegates appointed, and it was
hoped that the pending questions would then be speedily
and finally settled.
The Chinese Government did, indeed, ask the British
Government to withdraw the troops we had with us at
Khamba Jong, but this was on the strength of a report
they had received that when I was to follow Mr. White
to Khamba Jong, I was to bring with me the 300 men who
formed the support left at Tangu.
That the Dalai Lama himself had agreed to Khamba
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