IIIFカラー高解像度
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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184 GYANTSE
advice, and he recognized our compassion in having mag-
nanimously released the foolish and ignorant prisoners,
cared for the wounded, and shown humane motives of
sternness and mercy. He added that the Dalai Lama
was now aroused to a sense of our power. But still there
was no mention that the transport which the Resident
was insisting on " had been provided, and the appoint-
ment of a proper Tibetan Commissioner was still not
made. In fact, the Councillors had all been imprisoned 9~
by the Dalai Lama, and there were but few capable
Tibetan officials to settle the frontier and other important
questions," which could not, added the Resident, be
disposed of in a peremptory manner." A few days' delay
would not, therefore, he considered, be out of place.
Three days later he wrote that in this matter of
proceeding to meet me he had exhausted himself in talking
with the Tibetans, and trusted I would perceive something
of the difficult nature of the circumstances. And on
April 29 he wrote that he had received a reply from the
Dalai Lama about some representations I had made
against monks taking part in the fighting, but in this reply
not a word was mentioned about his transport or any other
matters.
In these circumstances I telegraphed to Government
on April 22 that the best way to meet these dilatory
tactics was, at the earliest moment by which military pre-
parations could be completed, to move the Mission straight
to Lhasa, and carry on the negotiations at the capital,
instead of halfway. This, I said, would be the most
effective and only permanent way of clinching matters,
besides being the cheapest and quickest. Our prestige, I
urged, was then at its height, Nepal and Bhutan were
with us, the people were not against us, the Tibetan
soldiers did not care to fight, the Lamas were stunned.
By a decisive move then a permanent settlement could
be procured. I added that, in recommending this pro-
posal at so early a stage for the consideration of Govern-
ment, my object was that the favourable season might be
utilized to the full, and that we might not allow the
psychological moment to pass without taking advantage
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