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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
348 NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
So for the present ended any idea of direct re-
monstrance regarding breaches of the Treaty. But it
was not only locally at the trade-marts that the Chinese
were pursuing their policy of separating the Tibetans
from us. By an astute move they had already sought to
effect the same end through payment of the indemnity.
By the terms of the Treaty this was due from the
Tibetans. 'Though we might well have demanded the
indemnity from the Chinese, and many think that we
should have demanded part, at least, for it was to enforce
a Treaty which they had asked us to make, which they
had assured us they could see observed, but of which,
from 1890 to 1904, they were never able to secure
fulfilment, that we went to Lhasa, we instead demanded it
from the 'Tibetans, and, on account of their poverty, we
reduced the amount payable from 75 to 2.5 lakhs of
rupees—from half a million sterling to :166,666. The
Chinese now said that they would pay this reduced
indemnity. In an Imperial Decree issued in November,
1905, it was ordered that the indemnity should, in view of
the poverty of the people, be paid by the Chinese Govern-
ment—that is, that the Chinese Government should pay
it over to us direct for, and on behalf of, Tibet.
In forwarding this information, Sir Ernest Satow
suggested that we should inform the Chinese Government
that we could not receive payment from them. He
believed that the Chinese Government were trying to
make themselves the intermediary of all communications
between India and Tibet, and it seemed to him reasonable
to conclude that this declaration of their intention to pay
the indemnity was intended to force the hand of the
Indian Government, and induce them to accept an
arrangement which the Chinese Government could after-
wards quote as a precedent in other matters.
Lord Lansdowne—these negotiations commenced while
the late Government were still in office—felt difficulty in
advising the India Office* as to how to deal with the matter.
It was on the one hand obvious that the indemnity was
required of the Tibetans partly as a punitive measure and * Blue-book, IV., p. 29.
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