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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
354 NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
as recognized in the Anglo-Russian arrangement regarding
Tibet, and confirmed by the Peking Convention. The
Indian Government greatly feared the reproduction in an
aggravated form of the position of affairs before 1903 if
Chinese contentions were admitted.
Mr. Morley proposed to Sir Edward Grey that a
representation should be made to the Chinese Government
of the serious consequences that would ensue if payment
of a third instalment of the indemnity was not made in
accordance with the Treaty ; and the latter telegraphed to
our Minister at Peking to inform the Chinese Govern-
ment
that the transfer of authority in the Chumbi Valley,
much as it was desired by His Majesty's Government,
would be unavoidably delayed unless payment was made
in accordance with the provision of the Lhasa Convention.
The result was that within a week a cheque, signed by
Mr. Chang, was delivered by the Tsarong Sha-pé, who
paid a formal visit to Sir Louis Dane, accompanied by two
Tibetan officers.
The Chinese did not altogether gain their third point,
but it is to be noted that the cheque was signed by Mr.
Chang, and that the Tibetan official was not much more
than a messenger carrying it over to the Foreign Office.
All these proceedings have an air of triviality, but
that in Asiatic eyes they were of importance we may
infer from the insistence of the Chinese. If they really
were trivial they might have handed the money to the
Tibetans, and saved themselves the worry with us.
Connected with this question of the payment of the
indemnity was the question of the evacuation of the
Chumbi Valley, to effect which was the most important
object of Chinese policy. By the original Treaty we had
the right to occupy it till seventy-five annual instalments
of the indemnity had been paid, but by the declaration
affixed to the ratification of the Treaty we undertook that
the British occupation of the Chumbi Valley should cease
after due payment of three annual instalments, provided
that the trade-marts, as stipulated in Article II., should
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