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secured by Colonel Younghusband. His corre-
spondence discloses the fact that—as was surmised
above—the indemnity had been fixed at an "ex-
orbitant" figure. The adjective is Colonel Young-
husband's. But he wanted to use it "in trade."
He finally "accepts their own proposition" (so
gracious is the wolf to the lamb), and provides for
seventy-five annual payments, pending the comple-
tion of which—that is, for seventy-five years—there
is to be British occupation of the Chumbi Valley.
That is Tibetan territory—and the military key to
the situation.
Here is something out of which enforcement of
Clause IX. could be had. But, as logically belong-
ing to the haughty pretensions of that clause, there
must be closer touch with Lhasa than would result
merely from the establishment of troops in Chumbi
Valley—still half a dozen good marches distant from
the capital. So it was in the earlier negotiations
wisely provided that the British commercial agent,
ordinarily charged with the conduct of affairs at the
two trading-marts provided in the treaty, should be
allowed, when he deemed it necessary, to proceed
to Lhasa. Thus supervision and force were reason-
ably created to perpetuate a control which, without
them, must be the veriest sham. Both these pro-
visions have been disallowed, in whole or in part, by
the Indian Office in London, and Younghusband
has been publicly reprimanded for wilfully exceeding
specific instructions.¹ But if no British are to appear
again in Tibet, how shall the ghost of Russian in-
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