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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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APPENDIX L
Pages 151–156 and (B) 193 of "Papers Relating to Tibet, 1904."
(The long and energetic letter of Lord Curzon, from which
extracts are here given, may fairly be considered as the official
basis for the attack upon Tibet. It is verbose, but it cries
"Forward!" so insistently that the weary Indian Office in
London finally echoes "Forward!"—a little weakly, yet loudly
enough to satisfy the strenuous Viceroy. His enthusiasm
makes him swallow secret treaties and Russian arms in Lhasa.
—O. T. C.)
(A)
Extracts from a Letter from the Government of India, in
the Foreign Department, to the Right Honourable
Lord George F. Hamilton, His Majesty's Secretary
of State for India, dated Camp Delhi, the 8th Janu-
ary, 1903. (Received the 24th January, 1903.)
In a despatch, dated 11th April, 1902, Your Lordship
agreed to our proposal for the employment of Mr. White, and
you forwarded to us copy of a letter from the Foreign Office
dated March 26th, in which the Marquess of Lansdowne ex-
pressed his concurrence with us in believing that further
negotiations on the subject of our relations with Tibet with
the Chinese Government would not be likely to lead to any
satisfactory result, and that it would be necessary to resort
to local action in order to vindicate British rights under the
Convention of 1890. Mr. White conducted his Mission dur-
ing the past summer with expedition and success. In a
despatch, dated 10th July, 1902, we explained to Your
Lordship the revised instructions which we issued to him
before starting and which he duly observed; and we now
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