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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
262 THE TERMS
common stock of our heavily burdened resources as if it
were placed upon the people of this country.
The satisfactory nature of the assurances given by
Russia in regard to Tibet rendered it unnecessary and
undesirable that any demand for the recognition of a
Political Agent, either at Gyantse or at Lhasa, should be
made to the Tibetans. His Majesty's Government held
that such a political outpost might entail difficulties and
responsibilities incommensurate with any benefits which,
in the situation created by the Russian assurances, could
be gained by it.
They did not even consider it desirable to claim for
the agent, who under the Trade Regulations would have
access to Gyantse, the right in certain circumstances to
proceed to Lhasa. The effect of this proposal, they con-
sidered, would be to alter the character of the duties of
the agent, which, it was intended, should be essentially
commercial, and to assimilate them to those of a Political
Resident.
As regards the amount of the indemnity," continues
the despatch, our ignorance of the resources of the
country makes it impossible to speak with any certainty.
The question, in the circumstances, must be left to the
discretion of Colonel Younghusband. The condition that
the amount should be one which, it is estimated, can be
paid in three years, indicates the intention of His Majesty's
Government that the sum to be demanded should con
stitute an adequate pecuniary penalty, but not be such as
to be beyond the powers of the Tibetans, by making a
sufficient effort, to discharge within the period named."
This despatch did not reach me till after the Treaty
was signed.
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