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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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294 THE TREATY CONCLUDED
O'Connor, and went through the draft Treaty with him ifil word by word. On the same day the Tongsa Penlop d~ suggested, on his own initiative, to the Tibetans that they 0
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should let us collect the Customs duty at the marts, and ii
get the amount of the indemnity from that source. I 0 telegraphed to Government that I was making no move iki in this matter of adjusting the difficulty about the in- Yi demnity till the Tibetans made definite proposals, but ii that I thought it would be advantageous to move, and 1iN would like the views of Government. 5ii
On September 4 the Ti Rimpoche (the Regent) and a lit Secretary of Council, accompanied by the Tongsa Penlop Ili and the Nepalese representative, came to me and an- da nounced that the Tibetan Government were prepared to ire conclude the Treaty with me if the term for the payment il of the indemnity would be extended, and the payment ;el made in seventy-five annual instalments of one lakh of Itti rupees each. i
I kept Captain O'Connor talking with them for a few t minutes while I turned the whole question over in my i mind once more before I gave a final decision. One very ii easy course I might have adopted was to say that 1 must i refer the matter to Government and await their orders. But M before I could get an answer military considerations might it
have predominated, and I might find myself forced to leave ti
Lhasa. As the Government of India subsequently said, %
the language of the communications which they received A
from the Home Government was such as to impress on t
them and me alike that they were strongly averse to any rd
prolongation of the stay at Lhasa. I had, therefore, no
assurance that I should have time to go on discussing this
point with the Tibetans. Then, again, I thought that in t the matter of the indemnity a certain amount of latitude 1
' had been left me. The Secretary of State's instructions t on this point were : In regard to the question of an 4 indemnity, the sum to be demanded should not exceed an i amount which, it is believed, will be within the power of % the Tibetans to pay, by instalments, if necessary, spread
over three years. Colonel Younghusband will be guided ` by circumstances in this matter." The full despatch was
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