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0169 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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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