'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎67r] (138/228)

Memorandum, of information received during
the month of July 1905, regarding
external affairs relating to the North-
East Frontier, Burma, Siam, and China.
[Note.—T his memorandum is based upon reports the
which it is not always possible to guarantee.]
accuracy of
TIBET.
1. With the approval of the Govern
ment of India,^ Captain O’Conuor has invited
the li-Eimpocne to send one or two promising
boys to Gyantse with the object of having them
instructed in European medical science.
2. See paragraph 4 of the Memorandum
for April 1905. On the 11th June 1905, Cap
tain O’Connor reported the receipt of inform
ation from Lhasa to the effect that the Tsong-
du (Assembly) have recently discussed the
question of sending delegates to India, and
are almost unanimously in favour of doing
so, hut fear to take any action without the
express permission of the Dalai Lama. They
have written to the Dalai Lama, asking leave
to send some representative officials to India
during the ensuing cold weather—assuming,
apparently, that the Viceroy’s invitation which
they have declined once will still hold good.
3. See paragraph 2 of the Memorandum
for June 1905. With a view to the preven
tion of wire-cutting, Captain O’Connor has
suggested that small monthly subsidies should
be paid to the headmen of each of the prin
cipal villages along the road between Tang La
and Gyantse, on the understanding that, should
the wire be cut at any time, payment of the
subsidy to the headman of the village within
whose boundaries the cutting occurred will be
withheld, and the Jongpen, accompanied by
Captain O’Connor, will proceed to the spot,
and award punishment to the persons found
to be responsible.
The Government of India have asked for
further information with regard to the scheme.
4. A Japanese traveller named Mr.
Teramoto, who is apparently in the employ of
the Japanese Minister at Peking, and who
has travelled from Peking, disguised as a
Mongolian Lama, through Mongolia and Tibet,
via Koko Nor, Lhasa, and Shigatse, called
upon Captain O’Connor at Gyantse, and gave
him interesting information.^ He reported
that, while he was at Lhasa in the month of
May two Bussians disguised as Mongolians,
with a following of Buriats, arrived there,
and took up their quarters in the bazaar. They
were followed, after a few uays interval, bj*