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0438 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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would be destroyed in a hundred, or perhaps a thousand,
years. In the west the "foreign frontier" was very close.
In that direction, also, was Nepal. The Tibetans were
therefore to make friends quickly with the Nepalese, and
"become as one to resist the foreigners." In Tibet were
"some wicked, aggressive foreigners," with whom inter-
course had to be maintained, and for this purpose English
schools would be opened. Then, again, in the south was
Bhutan, and "Tibet and Bhutan were as inseparable as
the cheek from the teeth." It would be even more advan-
tageous to make friends with Bhutan than with Nepal.
If at any future time the Bhutanese wanted help, the
Chinese Resident would give it. "Bhutan is like a wall of
Tibet. The Emperor thinks that the Gurkhas, Bhutanese,
and Tibetans should live like three men in one house."

The next Chinese move was the Imperial Decree
issued in November, 1908, to which more detailed allusion
will be made later,* ostensibly conferring an additional
honour on the Dalai Lama, in reality containing, as Sir
John Jordan put it, "the first unequivocal declaration on
the part of China that she regarded Tibet as within her
sovereignty"—sovereignty, be it noted, not suzerainty.

Then, a year later, came the announcement by the
Chinese Government to our Minister, that "Chao Erh-
feng was faced with a serious state of unrest on the
Tibetan marches—so much so that the Chinese Govern-
ment, having reason to fear complications with Tibet, and
desiring to strengthen their influence at Lhasa, were con-
templating the despatch of a body of troops to the
Tibetan capital."

By a remarkable coincidence, on the very day,
November 12, 1909, on which the Chinese Councillor
made this announcement to our Minister, the Dalai Lama,
from a monastery three marches outside Lhasa, despatched
a messenger to him, expressing the Dalai Lama's concern
to find, on his return to Tibet, that active measures were
being taken in the country by Chinese troops, and adding
his hope that the Minister would do what he could in the
matter.