IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
THE MOMENT FOR ACTION 291
time, but when my opportunity came, as come it must, I would strike in hard and sharp. The psychological moment had exactly arrived, and I determined to use it. I told the Chinese Resident that I would call on him on September 1 with the full final draft of the 'Treaty, and that I would like the Tibetan Council and the members of
~` the National Assembly to be present when I met him. In the presence of the Chinese representative, I meant to
~t inform the whole of the leading men of Lhasa, monk, lay, and official, that they must sign the Treaty, or take
i the consequences of refusal.
4On the appointed day, September 1, with my whole
staff, all of us in full-dress uniform, I rode through the city Ili of Lhasa to the Chinese Residency. Here the Resident
received me with his usual courtesy, and after some
I1 genéral conversation, I intimated to him that I would
f proceed to business. He thereupon summoned the
ii Sha-pés, who, after salutations, took their seats on stools is in the centre of the room. Most of the members of the ii National Assembly then present in Lhasa also came in, e and were huddled into the corners.
ti I then rose and presented the Resident with the full
it final draft of the Treaty (precisely as I had received is it from Government), in English, Chinese, and Tibetan.
The Resident handed the Tibetan copy to the Sha-pés, I and when all were seated again, I asked the Resident's
é permission to address a few words to the Tibetans in tf regard to the 'Treaty. The Resident having assented, I I said that as this was the first opportunity I had had of h addressing members of the National Assembly, I wished
to take advantage of it to let them know that if they had negotiated with me at Khamba Jong, or even at Gyantse when I first arrived there, the terms would not have been as severe as these we were now asking. We would merely have arranged trade and boundary questions, and there would have been no demand for an indemnity. By following the advice the Resident had given them, they might have been saved all the trouble in which they found themselves involved. They had chosen to fight, and had been defeated, and had to pay the consequences. Yet
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