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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
RUSSIAN PROTESTS 145
statement he (Count Benckendorfl) had made to him as
to the manner in which the Russian Government regarded
the Tibetan question. They could not help feeling that
the invasion of Tibetan territory by a British force was
calculated to involve a grave disturbance of the Central
Asian situation, and it was most unfortunate that at that
moment, when the Russian Government were disposed
to enter into an amicable discussion of our relations at
the various points where British and Russian interests were
in contact—an allusion to the preliminary negotiations
for the Anglo-Russian Agreement and entente cordiale—
an event of this kind, so calculated to create mistrust on
the part of Russia, should have occurred.
Lord Lansdowne expressed his great surprise at the
excitement which the announcement of the advance
seemed to have enacted. He had, he said, already pointed
out to the Ambassador that 'Tibet was, on the one hand,
in close geographical connection with India, and, on the
other, far remote from any of Russia's Asiatic possessions.
Our interest in Tibetan affairs was therefore wholly
different from any which Russia could have in them.
He reminded Count Benckendorff that he had already
explained to him that we had received the greatest
provocation at the hands of the Tibetans, who had not
only failed to fulfil their treaty obligations, but had virtually
refused to negotiate with us. We had always been
reluctant to entangle ourselves in quarrels with the
Tibetans, but our forbearance had led them to believe
that we could be ill-treated with impunity. Lord
Lansdowne said he was firmly convinced that the Russian
Government would not have shown as much patience as
we had, and that they would have been at Lhasa by that
time. He felt bound to add that it seemed to him beyond
measure strange that these protests should be made by
the Government of a Power which had, all over the world.
never hesitated to encroach upon its neighbours when the
circumstances seemed to require it. If the Russians had
a right to complain of us for taking steps to obtain
reparation from the Tibetans by advancing into Tibetan
territory, what kind of language should we not be entitled
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