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インドとチベット : vol.1

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India and Tibet : vol.1

インドとチベット : vol.1

CHAPTER XXIII

THE ATTITUDE OF THE TIBETANS SINCE 1904

IMMEDIATELY following the conclusion of the Treaty at

Lhasa, the attitude of the Tibetans was friendly enough.

The Ti Rimpoche wrote to the Government of India

expressing the gratitude of the Tibetans for the reduction

of the indemnity from 75 to 25 lakhs of rupees, and

for the promise to restore the Chumbi Valley after three

years if the provisions of the Treaty were duly observed.

The two parties have now commenced friendly relations,"

wrote the Regent, and we hope that for the future they

will be firmly established, and that the Viceroy will

vouchsafe his aid in making this friendship last for a very

long time to the benefit of the Tibetans."

The Yutok Sha-pé, one of the councillors who had

negotiated the 'Treaty at Lhasa, was appointed a kind of

Special Commissioner to Gyantse to arrange about the

opening of the trade-mart, and in a speech he made

during a visit to Captain O'Connor he said that the

Tibetans were quite satisfied with the arrangements

regarding the trade-marts, and that they all hoped that

the newly cemented friendship would be of long duration,

and that a flourishing trade would spring up.

The National Assembly also wrote a letter to Captain

O'Connor saying that they were rejoiced in heart, and gave

thanks.

Some exception was taken by the Tibetans to our

building a house in Chumbi, and to the maintenance of

the telegraph-line, both of which had been erected during

the course of the. Mission. But on the whole the inter-

course was friendly, and these written and personal com-

munications showed that the Tibetans had entirely

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