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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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APPENDIX D
From the London Times, May 24, 1903. Mr. James Bryce
at Aberdeen, May 23, 1903.
The Tibetans asked nothing better than to be let alone.
They were not fierce raiders like the Afghans. They valued
their splendid isolation. They wished, like Mr. Chamberlain,
to exclude foreign goods, and, like the Government, to ex-
clude alien immigrants except the Chinese. We had some
petty frontier disputes with them. They had been tiresome
and discourteous, refusing to send or receive envoys. Their
conduct had given material out of which those who wished
to have a quarrel could make a quarrel. But their very
weakness and ignorance rendered it possible for a great Power
to be indifferent.
The Tibetans were said to have had some communication
with the Russian Government, but the Government had de-
clared that they accepted Russia's denial. They called it a
peaceful mission and professed to believe it could have a
peaceful reception. The mission had become a war, etc.
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