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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
BRITISH PROTESTS TO CHINA 397
resulting as it possibly might in the status quo being
entirely changed, and in conditions being set up wholly
inconsistent with the spirit of our agreements with Tibet
and China, agreements by which the continuance of a
Tibetan Government was recognized. The Chinese Govern-
ment might also be told, they considered, that we should
be compelled in self-defence to strengthen our escorts at
Yatung and Gyantse if unsettlement of the country
continued, though assurance might at the same time be
given to both China and Russia that the maintenance of
the status quo under the 'Treaties and 'Trade Regulations
was all that we desired.
~E 'There was nine days' delay—perhaps due to the
General Election—in considering this telegram in the
India Office, and during those fateful days events were
advancing apace at Lhasa. But on February 9, the day
when the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Associate Resi-
Mk dent were consulting together in the Potala, Lord Morley
F informed * Sir Edward Grey that he would be glad if he
would see fit to address the Chinese Government in the
sense suggested by the Indian Government.
rk Sir Edward Grey fully appreciated- the serious corn-
plications which might arise upon the Indian frontier as
I the result of an attempt on the part of the Chinese to
deprive the Tibetans of their local autonomy, but before
deciding on the course to be adopted he thought it de-
li sirable to ascertain the views of Sir John Jordan, who was
accordingly telegraphed to in this sense on February 11,
the day before the Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa.
Sir John Jordan, one of the best Ministers we have
had in Peking, had unfortunately to leave Peking at this
time, and since the reply of the Chargé d'Affaires, Mr.
Max Milner, was received the situation had so altered
that the terms in which the Chinese were to be addressed
had to be reconsidered. It was true, said Lord . Morley,
in addressing the Foreign Office, that, in view both of our
Treaty relations with China and Russia and of the history
of our past policy in regard to Tibet, the position of
Great Britain is somewhat delicate, and that it is
* Blue-book, IV., p. 189. f Ibid.
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