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0325 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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justified three years before (1885) in resisting the
approach of the ''Commercial Mission,'' the organi-
sation and disruption of which, at Darjeeling, caused
so much newspaper disturbance and balked so many
ambitions that have been bequeathed to the more
fortunate personnel of the Younghusband expedi-
tion. As early as 1876, in the Chefoo convention
with China, a treaty basis was laid for a ''commer-
cial mission'' to Tibet, the date of the intended
expedition being indicated as ''next year.'' But
this convention was not fully ratified until 1885,
the clause referring to the establishment of Tibetan
relations sleeping more soundly, perhaps, than any
other.
When diplomatic delays had ended, and the signa-
ture of Chinese officials had been subscribed to an
engagement in respect to passports and a general
smoothing of the way for British intercourse with
Tibet, there was a gathering of men and things at
Darjeeling. The men were three hundred in num-
ber, but among all the three hundred, not a commer-
cial agent. Was it British humour which Parliament,
the Chinese Minister, and the Tsung-li-Yamen at
Pekin heard, when the Under-Secretary of State
for India, referring to the leashed warriors at Dar-
jeeling, said: ''The object was to confer with the
Chinese Commissioner (the Amban at Lhasa) and
the Lhasa government as to the resumption of com-
mercial relations between India and Tibet,'' and he
adds, does this saturnine Under-Secretary, ''look-
ing to the delicate nature of the mission it had not
been thought wise to appoint a special commercial
representative.''