IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
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CHUMBI EVACUATED 359
The final instalment of the indemnity having been
paid, orders for the evacuation of the Chumbi Valley were
issued on January 27, 1908.
Thus we deliberately abandoned the sole guarantee for
the fulfilment of the Treaty. For years prior to the
conclusion of. the Lhasa Treaty we had had practical
experience that Chinese engagements regarding Tibet
were useless. Since the signature of the Lhasa Treaty
we had three years' evidence that the Chinese were trying
to evade its execution. Its provisions had not been ful-
filled, and have not yet been carried out, six years after
it was signed. Extreme moderation had been shown ;
concession after concession had been made. With a
broad-mindedness in which some might suspect indifference
we had given way point after point. In spite of all this,
the Chinese were not observing the Treaty. And yet
we gave up the one and only material guarantee for its
fulfilment.
Now, at least, when we had withdrawn from Chumbi,
and when we had been complacent in so many respects,
we might fairly have expected that a change of tone would
have come over Chinese policy. But, as we have on many
other occasions experienced, the Chinese are not always
most reasonable when we are most accommodating. And
from the time we evacuated the Chumbi Valley they
commenced a great forward movement in Tibet, which
has resulted in the practical extinction of the Tibetan
Government, and necessitated our despatching a much
larger number of troops than we had in Chumbi to Gnatong,
an inhospitable spot over 12,000 feet above sea-level, where
they still have a 15,000-feet pass between them and
Chumbi, and can, in consequence, exert only one-quarter
of the moral effect they had in Chumbi itself.
But before this movement actually commenced, the
Chinese had concluded some Trade Regulations with us ;
again at the instance of the Chinese Government, who seem
to have a shrewd suspicion that these various agreements
bind us to a far greater extent than they confer benefit on us.
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