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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
A CHINESE DEVICE 351
Tibet Convention should be arrived at ; and in a later
telegram he said that direct payment by China could
not be refused by us after the Adhesion Convention had
been concluded."
The principle that the Chinese should pay instead of
the Tibetans was therefore practically conceded. But
another point arose. The Chinese had said they wished
to pay the amount of 25 lakhs of rupee (Rs. 25,00,000)
in three annual instalments, but by the Treaty the pay-
ment was to be paid in annual instalments of 1 lakh each.
The suggestion that the whole indemnity should be paid
in three instalments the Government of India thought a
Chinese device, having for its object the weakening of our
position in Tibet. The Treaty obligation was clear. And
the Indian Government preferred, as requested by the
Tibetans themselves at the time of signing the Treaty, to
receive annual payments of 1 lakh each at Gyantse, both
for political effect and because money was required for
recurring rent expenditure there.
Mr. Morley felt much hesitation in accepting the
views of the Government of India on this point. While
recognizing that certain advantages had been supposed by
some to arise from the political point of view in maintain-
ing our hold over the Tibetans for the full period of
twenty-five years, he was of opinion that such advantages
-would be altogether outweighed by our relief from the
necessity of enforcing a direct annual tribute for so long a
period.
Shortly after, on April 27, the Chinese signed the
Convention which has been described at the beginning of
this Chapter, acid the Chinese Government were informed
that we agreed to accept the offer to pay the whole of the
indemnity in three instalments, and that the first in-
stalment would be accepted from the Sha-pé either by
cheque, handed to the British Commercial Agent at
Gyantse, or by cheque to the Government of India,
drawn on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
The Chinese had made good their first point, and
we had receded from yet another stage which we had
reached in 1904. Their next point had now to be made-
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