IIIFカラー高解像度
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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
346 NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
sistent with the punishment of officials for being concerned
in its negotiation. Our Minister was further to state that
interference by Chinese officers with the freedom of the
dealings between the Tibetan Agent and the British Trade
Agent at Gyantse could not be permitted by His Majesty's
Government.
Again, on March 15,* he telegraphed that the right
of direct communication between the British Agent and
local Tibetan authorities must be firmly insisted on," and
the Chinese Government must be urged to send very clear
instructions in this sense to Chang."
Later, again, on June 27, Sir Edward Grey had
again to telegraph to our Minister to make further very
serious representations to the Chinese Government on the
subject. He was to draw their attention to the fact that
no friction existed between Captain O'Connor and the
Tibetans of the locality previous to the intervention of
Mr. Chang and Mr. Gow. We wanted nothing more
than freedom of trade, for our political interests were
safeguarded by clauses in the Treaty, and we had no wish
to assert any political influence ourselves. VVe did not
even desire to foster trade. We wished, indeed, to reduce
the establishment at the marts, and, if things went on
quietly, native instead of British agents might be appointed
there. But Sir Edward Grey considered that China was
trifling with her obligations in the matter of Tibet," and
he suggested that Mr. Gow should be entirely removed
from all employment in that country.
In consequence of these representations Mr. Gow was
withdrawn from Tibet, but only to be given a higher
appointment in a more popular part of the Chinese
Empire—the Directorship of Telegraphs at Mukden in
Manchuria—and the attitude of the Chinese in Tibet has
not yet really changed. Perhaps the reason may be found
in the hint given by Sir John Jordan, who, when the
Grand Secretary told him that the Wai.-wu-pu had
always been puzzled to know the causes of the friction
between Mr. Gow and. the )3ritish Trade Agent, expressed
his conviction that they lay in the fact that someone from * Blue-book, IV., p. 98.
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