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0430 India and Tibet : vol.1
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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-