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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
338 THE RESULTS OF THE MISSION
tion of His Majesty's Government as to withdrawal.
The Government of India were, therefore, asked to
consider whether, without prejudice to the signed agree-
ment, it would not be possible to intimate to the
Tibetans that the amount of the indemnity would be
reduced on their duly fulfilling the terms agreed to and
granting further facilities for trade.
Some correspondence followed, but, owing to the
shortness of my stay at Lhasa and the undesirability of
attempting to alter a Treaty directly it had been made,
no action was taken, and I returned with the Treaty
intact.
The Government of India wrote on October 6 to the
Secretary of State* reviewing the conditions under which
I had had to make the Treaty, and saying that they con-
sidered I was fully justified in using my discretion as I
did and in signing the Treaty on September 7 without
awaiting approval of the amount of the indemnity and the
method of its payment, and pointing out that any alteration
in the terms at the critical moment would probably have
led to a recommencement of the whole discussion.
They also thought my action in acquiring the right for
our Agent at Gyantse to proceed to Lhasa under certain
conditions might be approved. They were still of opinion
that the right might be of the greatest value hereafter,
and, hedged in as it was by the conditions mentioned in
it, it could not be held, they thought, to commit us to any
political control over Tibet.
At the same time the Government of India expressed
their sincere regret that the instructions of His Majesty's
Government were not carried out to the letter, as they
would have been if communication with their Commis-
sioner had not been a matter of twelve days even by
telegraph.
Regarding the amendment of the Treaty to meet the
wishes of His Majesty's Government, they proposed by
telegram on October 21 f that in ratifying it a declaration
should be appended by the Viceroy reducing the indemnity
from 75 to 25 lakhs, and affirming that after three annual
* Blue-book, III., p. 74. Ibid., p. 70.
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