India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 347 (Color Image)

0347	India and Tibet : vol.1

CHINESE DENOUNCE DALAI LAMA 281

England. The Ti Rimpoche said he trusted that when

this settlement was made Tibet and England would

dt always be on terms of friendship. The Tibetans had no

wish to have relations with any other Power, and desired

now to keep on good terms with England. I replied that

f we had been on perfectly good terms with Tibet for more

I, than a century up till the time of the Sikkim War, and I

hoped that when the present settlement was made we

should be friends for ever.

had perused the Tibetan reply to hiin which he had

handed to me at our last meeting. It was more satis-

iit factory than the first reply, and there were some points

which the Tibetans would now evidently agree to. I

proposed, then, that we should get these points settled first

and out of the way, so as to make a start, and then work

III on to the more contentious clauses.

I then remarked that I had heard the Dalai Lama had

without any doubt whatever fled the country. The

Rh Amban said this was true, and he was evidently not flying

to China, but to the north—possibly to join the Great

Ike Lama at Urga. I said he would hardly be flying to China,

it for he would surely have obtained the Amban's per-

mission to proceed to Peking, or at least have informed

him of his intention. The Amban replied that he had

gone off without any warning, and he had now definitely

decided to denounce him to the Emperor, and would

to-day or to-morrow send me a telegram which he would

ask me to have despatched to Peking as quickly as

possible. I said I would do this service for him, and I

considered he was acting with great wisdom in denouncing

the Dalai Lama, for it was he who had brought all this

trouble upon his country, and he deserved to suffer for it.

I was not surprised, however, at so young a ruler coining

to grief, for our experience in India was that a young

trouble if they kept on good terms with her. The

Nepalese representative agreed with the Tongsa Penlop

that all four countries should be on terms of friendship

with one another, and that Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan

should always preserve good relations with their neighbour

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