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Citation Information
AID FROM NEPAL 135
tributed to this good understanding between us and the
Nepal Prime Minister, the translation of a letter which the
latter had ,just addressed to the Council of Lhasa.
In this letter the Nepal Minister said that he had
heard from his frontier officers and from newspaper
reports that, in the absence of fully-empowered Com-
missioners from Tibet to deal with the British Commis-
sioners at Khamba Jong, no settlement could be arrived
at, and the latter were being unnecessarily detained.
This omission to depute Commissioners vested with full
authority, and the neglect or failure of the 'Tibetan
Council to bring about a reasonable settlement for so
long, compelled him to say that " such unjustifiable
conduct " might lead to grave consequences. It was laid
down, the Minister said, in the treaty between Nepal and
Tibet that Nepal would assist Tibet in the case of the
invasion of its territory by any foreign Rajas. Conse-
quently, when a difference of opinion arose between the
Tibetans and anyone else, it was incumbent on him to
help them to the best of his power with his advice and
guidance, in order to prevent any trouble befalling them
from such difference of opinion. And the manner in
which the Tibetans had managed the present business not
appearing commendable, the assistance he would give at
this crisis of their own creation " would consist in giving
such advice as would conduce to the welfare of their
country. Should they fail to follow his advice and trouble
befall them, there would be no other way open to him of
assisting them in the troublous solution brought about by
following a wayward course of their own. This should be
understood well, for the British Government did not
appear to him to have acted in an improper or high-
handed way in this matter, but was simply striving to
have the conditions of the treaty fulfilled, and it was
against the treaty and against all morality or policy to
allow matters to drift, and to regard as enemies the
officers of such a powerful Government who had come to
enforce such rights. Besides, when the Emperor of
China had, for their good, posted Ambans of high rank, it
was a serious mistake on their part to disregard even their
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