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0416 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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CHAPTER XXII

NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA

We had settled with Tibet direct, as was Lord Curzon's
chief object, and it had been proposed that China should
sign what was styled an Adhesion Agreement, formally
acknowledging the Tibetan Treaty. But Yu-tai, the
Resident at Lhasa, was instructed not to sign any such
agreement, and a Special Envoy was sent by the Chinese
Government to Calcutta to treat with the Indian Govern-
ment in the matter. Yu-tai himself had been specially
deputed for these negotiations regarding Tibet, but
apparently he was considered too complacent, and first of
all, Mr. Tang, and then Mr. Chang, were sent to Calcutta,
and from now onwards the Chinese showed first great
diplomatic insistence, and then great military activity, in
regard to Tibet, till, profiting by the jealousy between
us and the Russians, which had prevented our reaping
all the fruits of the Mission to Lhasa, they one by one
gathered those fruits themselves.

Nothing resulted from Mr. Tang's visit to India, and
ill-health caused him to return to China. But on April
27, 1906, in place of an Adhesion Agreement, a Conven-
tion was signed at Peking between Great Britain and
China which "confirmed" the Lhasa Convention of 1904.
In addition, Great Britain engaged "not to annex Tibetan
territory, or to interfere in the administration of Tibet";
while the Chinese Government undertook "not to permit
any other foreign State to interfere with the territory or
internal administration of Tibet." We were entitled to
lay down telegraph-lines to connect the trade-marts with
India. And it was laid down that the provisions of the
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