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0439 India and Tibet : vol.1
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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.