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difficult for us to make an effective protest. But he
was strongly of opinion that it should be pointed out
emphatically to the Chinese Government (1) that Great
Britain, while disclaiming any desire to interfere in the
internal administration of Tibet, cannot be indifferent to
disturbances of the peace in a country which is both our
neighbour and is on intimate terms with other neighbour-
ing States upon our frontier, and especially with Nepal,
whom we could not prevent from taking such steps to
protect her interests as she might think necessary in the
circumstances; (2) that, in view of our Treaty relations
with both Tibet and China, His Majesty's Government
had the right to expect that the Chinese Government
would at least have tendered friendly explanations before
embarking on a policy which, in the absence of such
explanations, could not but appear intended to subvert
the political conditions set up by the Anglo-Tibetan Con-
vention and confirmed by the Anglo-Chinese Convention;
and (3) that His Majesty's Government must claim that,
whatever the intentions of the Chinese Government might
be as regards the future of Tibet, an effective Tibetan
Government should be maintained, with whom we could,
when necessary, treat in the manner provided by those two
Conventions.
Sir Edward Grey concurred in Lord Morley's views,
and directed Mr. Max Müller on February 23 to make a
representation to the Chinese Government in the above
sense. In reply to this, Liang-tun-yen, the President of
the Wai-wu-pu, informed Mr. Max Müller on February 25
that the force despatched to Lhasa consisted of not
more than 2,000 men, under a Brigadier, but not under
Chao Erh Feng, who was apparently still at Chiamdo.
He wished to assure the British Government that the
Chinese intentions were merely to enable the country to
be policed and more effective control than formerly to be
exercised, particularly in regard to Tibet's obligations to
neighbouring States. The Chinese desired no modification
of the status quo, and no alteration in any way of internal
administration. It had not been their intention that the
Dalai Lama should be deprived of his power, and repeated
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