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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
CHINESE PROTESTS 143
that all this required time to settle, and asserting that the
Tibetan passes were guarded by soldiers, and requesting
the Viceroy, therefore, to instruct the British Commissioner
not to move from the present camp, told the Resident
that he understood that Colonel Chao was of lower, not
higher, rank than Mr. Ho, and that, as the Resident's
departure was contingent on the Dalai Lama's nomination
of a Councillor, and as the Dalai Lama had for four
months past failed to send, as desired, an officer of the
highest rank, he saw no prospect of the Resident arriving
at Khamba Jong within any reasonable time. The
Viceroy then recapitulated our various grounds of com-
plaint, and concluded by saying that, in these circumstances,
he had no alternative but to transfer the place of negotia-
tions to some more suitable spot, where he hoped they
might be resumed. And as the Resident had stated that
the 'Tibetan passes were guarded by soldiers, he had been
compelled to take measures to insure the safety of the
Commissioners in moving from Khamba Jong, and to
prevent any possible interruption of communication with
them.
The Chinese Government made on November 16 a
protest to Lord Lansdowne against an advance, and
hoped that I would be instructed to await the arrival of
the new Resident, who, it will be remembered, had been
instructed nearly a year previously to proceed as rapidly
as possible to Lhasa ; but Lord Lansdowne informed
them that His Majesty's Government had learnt by
experience that the 'Tibetans systematically disregarded
the injunctions of the Emperor and the Chinese Govern-
ment, who had no real influence in restraining them from
acts such as those we complained of. We had treated
the Tibetans with the utmost forbearance, but these
recent proceedings compelled us to exact satisfaction, and
we could not remain inactive until the arrival of the new
Resident, who had unnecessarily protracted his journey.
The Chinese Minister said that his Government
recognized the forbearance shown by the British authori-
ties towards the Tibetans, and also the friendly spirit
brought by the British Commissioners to the discussion of
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