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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
ABANDONED RESULTS 339
instalments had been paid the British occupation of the
Chumbi Valley should terminate, provided the terms of
the Treaty should in the meantime have been carried
out.
To this proposal the Secretary of State agreed on
November 7,* but he added that, as regards the agree-
ment giving the Agent at Gyantse the right of access to
Lhasa, His Majesty's Government had decided to disallow
it, for they considered it unnecessary, and inconsistent
with the principle on which their policy had throughout
been based.
Finally, the Secretary of State reviewed the whole
affair in a despatch dated December 2. When Lord
Curzon, in his despatch of January 8, 1903, made hiss
proposal for a Mission to Lhasa, Tibet, though lying on
our borders, was practically an unknown country, the
rulers of which persistently refused to hold any com-
munications with the British Government even on neces-
sary matters of business ; and if the Tibetan Government
had become involved in political relations with other
Powers, a situation of danger might have been created on
the frontier of the Indian Empire. This risk had now
been removed by the conclusion of the 'Treaty. And it
was considered most satisfactory that, having regard to
the obstinacy of the 'Tibetans in the past, 1 should,
besides concluding the 'Treaty, have good reason to believe
that the relations which I had established with them at
Lhasa were generally friendly.
In the Treaty I had inserted a stipulation that the
indemnity was to be paid in 75 annual instalments, and I
had retained without modification the proviso that the
Chumbi Valley was to be occupied as security till the full
amount had been paid. The effect of this was to make it
appear as if it were our intention to occupy for at least
seventy-five years the Chumbi Valley, which had been
recognized in the Convention of 1890 and the Trade
Regulations of 1893 as Tibetan territory. This would
have been inconsistent with the repeated declarations of
His Majesty's Government that the Mission would not
* Blue-book, III., p. 77.
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