'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎56r] (116/228)

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Lhasa. On the 20th April, Mr. Bell furthpr
reported that some more officials were to start
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act. A monk official, with a member of the
f a ba , f™ 1 y as iay official, is said to have
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month. It is thought probable that the Dalai
Lama will travel by easy stages, so as to give
the Mongolians chances of worshipping him
en route, so that they may he saved” from
having to make the pilgrimage to Lhasa.
9. A trader of Tibetan extraction but
resident at Kalimpong, has lately returned
from Lhasa. He passed himself off as an
inhabitant of the Chumbi valley, being afraid
to avow himself a Kalimpong man. There
appears to be an order in force by which the
presence of all subjects of the British Govern,
ment and of the Sikkim State must, on their
arrival at Lhasa, be reported to the Tibetan
authorities.
A resident of Kurseong, in the Darjee-
ling' district, a member of the Kagte tribe,
who are libetans by race but live withiu
the jurisdiction of Nepal, went to Lhasa
with the Mission, but stayed on after its
depaiture with the intention of earning
his living by teaching English and Hindi to
boys and girls in Lhasa. On coming to know
this, the Lamas accused him of being a spy of
the British Government, jostled and assaulted
him as he went about the streets, and
threatened to kill him. He was summoned
by the. Tsarong Shape, who listened to his
complaints of the treatment he had received,
and informed him that no harm would be
done to him. The man was not reassured,
however, and left Lhasa for Chumbi.
Mr. Bell reports that it appears that some
of the men and women who sold supplies in
our camp at Lhasa were flogged by order of
the Tibetan Government after the Mission had
left. . Accordingly a large number of the
remainder of these petty traders, mostly
women, fled,.and are now settled in the Chumbi
valley, Sikkim, Darjeeling, and Kalimpong.
10. Vide paragraph 36 of the Memo
randum for March 1905. As a result of the
negotiations with Tang Tachen, the Chinese
Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, he was
furnished with a copy of a draft Convention
containing the following six articles which
the Government of India were prepared to
recommend to His Majesty’s Government:—
Article 1. The British Government recog
nise the suzerainty of China over Tibet.
Article 2. The Convention signed on
the 7th day of September 1904 on behalf of
the Governments of Great Britain and Tibet,
and the text of which, in English, is attached