OUR POSITION IN TIBET, Oar position in Tibet " was the snbject of a paper which Colonel Sir Fran: Younghusband read on November 2 before the ''antral Avian Society. Colonel Younghasband, it will be recalled, led the famous expedition into Tibet in 1904. Separating Iadia from Tibet, the lecturer explained, was a wighty range of moantaias, and upon the other side of those mountains events occurred which forced us to action, What would} help most towards the solation nf the trouble which existed io fist quarter was the lutment of an agent at Lhasa who would i. fluence those eveute, least, intelligently anticipate wes not seand business to be at the mercy of events, and our argent need was for an agent on the Nurth-East Frontier who would warn us of trouble before it arose. The Tibetans had themselves asked that a British UN officer should be sent to Lhasa, but their request had been refused, By the Anglo-Raesiao Convention both this country and Russia had agreed to have nothing to do with Tibet, but, thought, the time had come for both to The whole question of the North-East Frontier of India was never in a more critical stage than at the present moment. Force might not be required to settle it; bat foresight, forethought, sud foreknowledge mast assuredly were, Indifference and a bored desire to wash oar hands of the whole basivess, or a Iszy trast in the good feeling of the hinese, would not suffice, A great des] was heard nowadays of the awakening of China, All dowa our North-Eastern Frontier in Tibet and Yuonan, bordering on Burma the wider awake the biaeee the wider awake we ourvolves must be. We formerly had reagan to complain of the lethargy of the Chinese la Tibet; now the comvlniot was not merely of loth of positive obstruction. reason then to be wide away That Chioa shoold establish better order in Tibet nserainty sly desir Bat the Chinese were going ood deal beyond ing Tibet a Chinese province, they had made making the Tibetine full their treaty bligativns, they were actaslly prevent ing them from #0 doing. There was, in the words of Lord Morley, "a marked absence" of friendly relations with our officers, aad of a desire on the part ut the liiness local officials to. cooperate with our own in " friendly
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