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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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406 THE ATTITUDE OF THE TIBETANS
desirable to press the Chinese Government to send strict
orders to their local officials to co-operate with our own
officers in a friendly manner, since without such friendly
relations (of which there had recently been a marked
absence), friction between the two Governments was
certain to arise. It might also be well, thought Lord
Morley, to impress upon the Chinese the inadvisability of
locating troops upon or in the neighbourhood of the
frontiers of India and the adjoining States in such numbers
as would necessitate corresponding movements on the part
of the Government of India and the rulers of the States
concerned. The Tibetans, though ignorant, were peace-
able people, and it was unlikely that a very large Chinese
force would be necessary for such simple police arrange-
ments as were contemplated by Article 12 of the Trade
Regulations.
Adopting these proposals, Sir Edward Grey tele-
graphed to Mr. Max Miller on April 8, to make a repre-
sentation to the Chinese Government in their sense.
All we know further than this is that two battalions
of infantry, four guns, and some sappers have been sent by
us to the Sikkim frontier, to be ready, if necessary, to
proceed into Tibet to protect the 'Trade Agents. And so
the story ends much as when it began, except that while
formerly it was the Tibetans who were supposed to be the
most impenetrable and unsociable, it is now the Chinese
who are presenting the real obstacles to any reasonable
intercourse between India and Tibet.
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