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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
DIFFICULTY REGARDING INDEMNITY 283
all the terms except that regarding the payment of an
indemnity, and except in regard to opening further marts
in future. They expressed a wish to make the settlement
directly with me, and when we had agreed upon it, then
they would communicate the result to the Resident. I
said that I should be ready to receive them whenever they
wished to discuss matters with me. What I should tell
them and what I should tell the A mbar would be exactly
the same, but if they liked to hear my views from me
direct I would gladly receive them.
They then again announced that they were ready to
agree to all our terms but one. The indemnity they
could not pay. 'Tibet was a poor country, and the
Tibetans had already suffered heavily during the war ;
many had been killed, their houses had been burnt, jongs
and monasteries had been destroyed ; and, in addition to
all this evil, it was impossible for them to pay an indemnity
as well. The little money they had was spent in religious
services in support of the monasteries, in buying vessels
fôr the temples and butter to burn before the gods. The
peasants had to supply transport for officials, in addition,
and there were no means whatever for paying the heavy
indemnity we were demanding.
I replied that the war in Sikkim had cost us a million
sterling, and the present war would cost another million.
After the Sikkim War the Tibetans had repudiated the
treaty which the Resident then made, and we might very
justifiably now ask for an indemnity for the Sikkim War,
as well as for this. We were, however, making no such
demand, and we were only asking from 'Tibet half the
cost of the present war. I knew, of course, that Tibet
had suffered from the present war, but no such suffering
need have occurred if they had negotiated with me at
Khamba Jong in the previous year. And, while they
had suffered, we also had not escaped without trouble.
Captain O'Connor had himself been wounded, and what
we looked upon as extremely serious in this matter was
that the representative of the British Government should
have been attacked. If they attacked the Resident here,
they knew well how angry the Emperor of China would
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