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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
CHINESE PROPOSALS 349
partly in order that by the annual payment of the necessary
instalments they should formally recognize the binding
nature of the obligations entered into by them towards the
British Government. Should the annual instalments hence-
forth be paid by the Chinese Government, the punitive effect
of the indemnity would disappear, for it did not seem to Lord Lansdowne at all probable that the Chinese Government
would be able or willing to recover from the Tibetan
Government the sums paid on this account, and past
experience had proved that it was not in the power of
China to insist effectively on the fulfilment of the other
stipulations of the Convention.
Lord Lansdowne felt no doubt that the proposal had
1111 been made by the Chinese Government with the object of
p re-establishing their theoretical rights to supremacy over
!ßl1 the Tibetan Government, and probably also with the
object of insuring that the non-payment of the instal-
ments at their due date should not stand in the way of
i the retirement of the British forces. Irrespectively of
these considerations, the refusal of the Chinese Govern-
ment to adhere to the Tibetan Agreement made it doubly
difficult for us to entertain the offer, and upon this ground
alone Lord Lansdowne considered that it should be
rejected. For acceptance would be tantamount to
admitting the intervention of China in relieving Tibet
from this portion of her obligations while avoiding all
responsibility for any other portion of the Convention.
Should the attitude of the Chinese Government
undergo a change in consequence of our refusal, and
should they intimate that they would adhere to the Agree-
ment, the situation would no doubt be altered, and might
be reconsidered by His Majesty's Government. Having
regard, however, to the complete inability shown by China
in the past to exercise effectual control over the Tibetan
authorities, it seemed to Lord Lansdowne that it would
be highly inadvisable to agree to any settlement which
might be regarded as an admission that responsibility for
the behaviour of the Tibetans would for the future rest
upon the Chinese Government.
This view of Lord Lansdowne's and Sir Ernest
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