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Citation Information
CHINESE FORWARD MOVEMENTS 365
The events which led up to this will be set forth in
detail in the following Chapter. To make the consecutive
narrative of Chinese action complete, it will merely be
noted here that three months later the Chinese troops
arrived in Lhasa ; that on the day of their arrival ten
soldiers were sent to each of the Tibetan Ministers' houses ;
that the Dalai Lama thereupon fled to India ; that the
Chinese sent several hundred soldiers to " attend " and
protect " him, but that he escaped across our frontier ;
that only a fortnight after he had left Lhasa he was
deposed by Imperial decree ; that the Chinese then took
the Government of Tibet into their hands, preventing the
sole remaining Minister from doing anything without the
Resident's consent, holding the ferry across the Brahma-
putra, and preventing anyone crossing the river without a
pass from the Resident, replacing Tibetan by Chinese
police, seizing rifles, closing the arsenal and mint ; and,
what more intimately concerns ourselves, and what was
immediately opposed to Treaty obligations, preventing
the Tibetans dealing directly with our Trade Agents.
All this was done, moreover, with the object, as our
Minister was informed, of tranquilizing the country," of
protecting the trade-marts," and of seeing that the
Tibetans conform to the Treaties."
Whether the Chinese forward movement extended
beyond Tibet to Nepal and Bhutan, there is no official
information. But Government evidently expected some
such action, for in January, 1910, they concluded a
Treaty with Bhutan, increasing the annual allowance
from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 100,000, and securing from the
Bhutanese an agreement that they would be guided by
the advice of the British Government in regard to their
external relations. And on Lord Morley's suggestion, the
Chinese Government was informed in February of this year
that we could not prevent Nepal from taking such steps to
protect her interests as she might think necessary under
the circumstances ; while in April we went a step farther,
and gave a clear intimation to China* that we could not
allow administrative changes in Tibet to affect or prejudice
* Blue-book, IV., p. 215.
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