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Citation Information
356 NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA
of the negotiations for the Trade Regulations, the attitude
of the Chinese and Tibetan representatives proved
obstructive, the question of warning the Chinese and
Tibetan representatives that our evacuation would depend
on matters connected with trade-marts being satisfactorily
settled, should be considered.
It was shown by the history of the negotiations that,
in regard to important points at issue, the Chinese had
been, and still were, most obstructive. Sir John Jordan's
requests regarding points which he was pressing had not
yet been acceded to by the Wai-wu Pu ; while, in a letter
to Sir Louis Dane, which had just been received, Mr. Chang
refused to yield other contested points, and forwarded
further draft regulations. The transfer of the administra-
tion of the valley should, therefore, the Indian Govern-
ment submitted, be deferred until some guarantee that
the marts would be effectively opened, and that they
would remain so, was afforded us by the new Trade
Regulations. The chief lever which we possessed for
securing China's real compliance with the terms of the
Lhasa Convention would be lost if the transfer was per-
mitted before the signature of the Regulations. The
possibility, in the event of non-fulfilment of conditions, of
temporary postponement of evacuation was apparently con-
templated by the annexure to the Anglo-Russian arrange-
merit concerning Tibet. And the sincerity of our inten-
tion to leave the valley would perhaps be sufficiently
guaranteed by the fact that discussion of the Trade
Regulations was in progress, and that their settlement was
to be followed by evacuation.
Mr. Morley, in reviewing these contentions of the
Indian Government, said that it must be remembered
that when the Government of India, in July, 1907, raised
the question of the failure of the Tibetans to fulfil the
conditions on which evacuation was to take place, it was
decided by His Majesty's Government that it was not
necessary at present formally to remind the Chinese and
Tibetan Governments of such breaches of the Lhasa
Convention as have occurred." Nor had the incidents
since reported by the Government of India been con-
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