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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
146 KHAMBA JONG
to use in regard to Russian encroachments in Manchuria,
Turkestan, and Persia.
Count Benckendorff asked him whether he had any
objection to his saying that Government had approved of
the advance into Tibetan territory with reluctance, and
only because circumstances had made it inevitable, and
that our sole object was to obtain satisfaction for the
affronts we had received from the Tibetans ; and Lord
Lansdowne said that he had no objection to his making
such a statement.
Despite Russian and Chinese protests, the advance to
Gyantse was now irrevocably decided on, and once again we
have now to ask, Was the Mission justified in advancing
into Tibet ? I have given all the reasons for thinking that
the despatch of the Mission to Khamba Jong was justified.
Was this further advance into the Chumbi Valley and to
Gyantse equally necessary ? Perhaps, if we had shown
yet more patience and yet more forbearance, we might
have effected our object without advancing by force into
the country. Was this so ?
What eventually occurred showed that there were no
possible grounds for such a belief. Even when the
Chinese Central Government were aroused, and had
ordered the Resident to proceed to the frontier to settle
matters, he was unable to get there. The Tibetans refused
him transport, and when we reached Lhasa, in August
of the following year, we found him to be practically
a prisoner, and almost without enough to eat, as the
Tibetans had prevented supplies of money from reaching
him, and he had actually to borrow money from us. But
it was with the Tibetans that we really wished to
negotiate. Perhaps they would have come to terms with
us if we had been a little less impatient and remained on
the frontier ? Perhaps they would have sent a Councillor,
as we had asked, and negotiated a treaty ? On this point,
too, our later experience showed that we could not have
relied. When we at length reached Lhasa I had to
negotiate, not with one Councillor only, but with the whole
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