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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
FACILITIES FOR TRADE 259
in the same degree, to afford a guarantee of satisfactory
results. Ari agent at Gyantse, though possibly in greater
personal security, would probably not be in so good a
position for knowing what transpired in political circles at
Lhasa.
But whether or not a British agent was established in
Tibet, Government considered that recent events justified
their requiring from the Tibetans and from the Chinese
Government a formal recognition of our exclusive political
influence in Tibet, and an engagement that they would
not admit to Tibet the representative of, that they would
cede no portion of 'Tibetan territory to, and that they
would enter into no relations regarding Tibet with, any
other foreign Power, without the previous consent of the
British Government.
Turning to less contentious matter, namely, that of
facilities for trade with 'Tibet, to secure which was the
primary object of the Mission when it was originally
despatched on an errand, which was then indubitably
peaceful in character and intention, Government con-
tended that it was, of course, necessary to insist on access
for purposes of trade to convenient centres in Tibet
proper in the place of Yatung, which was beyond all
question unsuitable for the object for which it was in-
tended. In Central 'Tibet present information led to the
belief that the town of Gyantse provided the site which
was best fitted to our requirements. Arid, in view of
recent developments, they thought that it might be ad-
visable to insist on the opening up to trade of the neigh-
bouring town of Shigatse, the seat of the Tashi Lama,
and also of Lhasa itself, if a British Resident should be
posted to the capital. They considered, too, that the
present opportunity should be taken of completing the
road to the frontier, and of opening another market at
Gartok or some other convenient place in Western Tibet,
which, with its vicinity to Chinese Turkestan, might
acquire considerable importance in the future.
It would be useless at the present stage, the Govern-
ment of India thought, to enter into details of the draft
Convention, of the trade regulations, of the terms as to
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