"المجلد II. مذكرات بخصوص شؤون خارجية أخرى. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٧‎٥] (٢٢٨/١٥٤)

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1905? aP Tt wn °i the Memora ndum for July
-1JU5). it was also said that China would mv
the indemnity on behalf of Tibet, and that
Chinese troops would be sent to Lhasa.
+w .T™* 0 f «>-ther stated that he heard
that DorpeS had accompanied the Dalai Lama
to within three marches of Urga, hut on
hearing that Chinese search parties were at
hand to arrest him, be left the Dalai Lama,
and nothing more appears to be known about
him. I he Russians are said to he displeased
with him for not having brought the Dalai
Lama to Russia after the expenditure in Tibet
of such large sums of money provided from
Russian funds.
At Shigatse Mr. Teramoto found the
general feeling favourable to the British.
7. (See paragraph 4 of the Memorandum
for July 1905.) The information received by
our officers in Tibet and the reports of the
Nepalese Representative at Lhasa to his
Government, confirm the news supplied
by the Japanese traveller, Mr. Teramoto,
regarding the presence of Russians at Lhasa.
Captain O’Connor reported, on the 25th July
1905, that some Nepali traders from Lhasa
had informed him that they had seen a
party of Mongolians at Lhasa, and that the
leader, a tall man with a flowing heard down
to his waist, was undoubtedly a foreigner, and
they believed a Russian. They said that all
the party could speak Mongolian, but that the
headmen spoke some other language amongst
themselves. A Chinese agent, whom Captain
O’Connor had sent to Lhasa, stated, on his
return, that, when he arrived at Lhasa, the
party of Mongolians had all left on their
return journey, with the exception of one
man, who proposed visiting Shigatse. The
messenger was, therefore, unable to procure
any further information regarding the alleged
presence of one or more Russians with the
party, but he confirms the details already
received regarding the personal appearance
of the leaders. The only scrap of writing
he was able to secure is written in the
Mongolian character. He says that. the
Mongolians brought some rifles (he believes
about 30), which were handed over to the
Sechung Shape, in whose charge they now
are. Captain O’Connor also reports having re
ceived a private letter from the Tashi Lama, in
which he informed Captain O’Connor that he
had just received word through a confidential
messenger of his own of the presence of a
Russian at Lhasa. In replying to the Tashi
Lama, Captain O’Connor thanked him for the
information furnished, and expressed a hope
that he would keep him (Captain O Co™ 0 )
supplied from time to time with news of