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frontier questions, and they hoped that we would recog-
nize the difficult position in which China had been placed
by her obstinate and ignorant vassal, and enjoin our Com-
missioners to exercise patience and forbearance, and thus
assist the Resident, who had been instructed to proceed
in person to the frontier to bring the Tibetans to a
juster sense of their duties and responsibilities as good
neighbours.
To this Lord Lansdowne replied that the Chinese
had hitherto signally failed in such attempts, and the
attitude of the Tibetan authorities had of late been of
increased hostility. It was impossible, therefore, for us to
desist from the measures already sanctioned.
In the event, it turned out that the Resident never
did meet me on the frontier, and that even his successor,
when at last he arrived at Lhasa, did not care to meet
me even at Gyantse, for the Tibetans, so he informed me,
would not provide him with transport. Lord Lans-
downe's refusal to desist from action and pursue still
further the policy of patience and forbearance was, there-
fore, amply justified by events.
But it was not only the Chinese Government who
were now beginning to protest against our action. The
Russian Government also began to move in the matter.
Lord Lansdowne had on November 7, the day on
which the forward move was sanctioned by Government,
informed the Russian Ambassador* that, owing to the
outrageous conduct of the Tibetans, it had been decided to
send our Mission, with a suitable escort, farther into the
Tibetan territory, but that this step should not be taken
"as indicating any intention of annexing, or even of
permanently occupying, Tibetan territory." And on
November 17 Count Benckendorff called on Lord
Lansdowne,† and spoke in the most earnest tones of the
effect which had been created in Russia by the announce-
ment that we were about to advance into Tibet. He was
instructed to remind Lord Lansdowne of the former
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