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0357 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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time, but when my opportunity came, as come it must,
I would strike in hard and sharp. The psychological
moment had exactly arrived, and I determined to use it.
I told the Chinese Resident that I would call on him on
September 1 with the full final draft of the Treaty, and
that I would like the Tibetan Council and the members of
the National Assembly to be present when I met him.
In the presence of the Chinese representative, I meant to
inform the whole of the leading men of Lhasa, monk,
lay, and official, that they must sign the Treaty, or take
the consequences of refusal.

On the appointed day, September 1, with my whole
staff, all of us in full-dress uniform, I rode through the city
of Lhasa to the Chinese Residency. Here the Resident
received me with his usual courtesy, and after some
general conversation, I intimated to him that I would
proceed to business. He thereupon summoned the
Sha-pés, who, after salutations, took their seats on stools
in the centre of the room. Most of the members of the
National Assembly then present in Lhasa also came in,
and were huddled into the corners.

I then rose and presented the Resident with the full
final draft of the Treaty (precisely as I had received
it from Government), in English, Chinese, and Tibetan.
The Resident handed the Tibetan copy to the Sha-pés,
and when all were seated again, I asked the Resident's
permission to address a few words to the Tibetans in
regard to the Treaty. The Resident having assented, I
said that as this was the first opportunity I had had of
addressing members of the National Assembly, I wished
to take advantage of it to let them know that if they had
negotiated with me at Khamba Jong, or even at Gyantse
when I first arrived there, the terms would not have been
as severe as these we were now asking. We would
merely have arranged trade and boundary questions, and
there would have been no demand for an indemnity. By
following the advice the Resident had given them, they
might have been saved all the trouble in which they found
themselves involved. They had chosen to fight, and had
been defeated, and had to pay the consequences. Yet