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THE MAKING OF A TREATY

TIBETIANS' 7-FEET-LONG

DOCUMENT

of Transport because he could ENSURES PEACE WITH BRITAIN

"no longer afford to give the whole of his time to

B grateful country for such a small re- muneration."

The salary attaching to the of fice is £1200 a year. The economy, cut brought it down to £1080. By the Budget decision half the cut was restored in July.

Lt.-col Headlim resigned at the beginning of the month but his place has not yet been filled.

Five other Under-secretaries have similar remuneration to his, About a dozen others are now re- ceiving £1425.

ANOMALIES

(By Sir Francis Younghusband.)

The writer of this article was as truculent as they had been to British Commissioner placed in the British, had paid the mission 'charge of the Mission whichļa visit on the day of their arrival;' - Penetrated unknown Tibet as far and on the following day the mis- as its capital, Lhasa,

sian returned the visit, marching

There, thirty years ago, he through the streets of Lhase with secured the Treaty with the an improvised band. A few days Tibetans in circumstances he now later the Regent appeared. picturesquely describca,

He was a man of about 70 years

T

TIBET had always been a very courteous.

of age, vory sedate, dignified and secluded country. It lay on had little experience in dealing He professed to have, the far eide of the highest range with worldly

affaire. For all

of mountains in the world, and it that, he could put There are strange anomalies in liked to keep themselves to them-treaty very shrewdly. was inhabited by a people who against agreeing to

the case Government salaries. Ten Cabinet selves.

the draft. Ministers have a basic rate of £5000; aix have £2000. These centric Englishman, Manning, arsibility to conclude a treaty. The A hundred years ago that ecto undertake on his own respon- He would not presume, he said, Agurea are reduced by the cuts.

Mr. Baldwin, the Lord Pre-1846, two adventurous and talent-Four, the Abbots of the three rived at Lhasa; and in January. National Assembly, the Council of sident of the Council, who hased French missionaries, Huc and Great Monasteries been acting as deputy Prime Gabet, had been there in disguise. consuited. Minister, is one of the lower paid But since then every effort of Ministers. He has also a house.

cent."'

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you

sioners.

Signing The Treaty

all

ane in-

them.

must all be The First Lord of the Admiralty Indians, to reach the sacred city missioner suggested. They

Europeans, and even Japanese and and discuss the matter, the Com. Let Lamas and laymen all come has a basic £4500 and 8 house. had been resisted by the Tibetans came. And with each He has also two assistants-the Parliamentary

Now they had invaded British dividually the whole position was and Financial Secretary (Lord Stanley, M.P.)fused to observe a treaty made by have his say to the full; and not

protected territory. They had re-discussed. Each was who is on the same scale as the their Chincse suzeraine on their till he had had his say was any allowed to lower paid members of the Cabl-behalf. They had returned letters attempt made to state the British was not popular. It was the age basic rate ia £1000.

net; and

the Civil Lord, whose sent to the Dalai Lama by the case. He must be encouraged to of the Little Englander, who as- sumed that, as they grew in Government in the Commons are way towards the British, the

The lowest paid members of the were behaving in this truculent was put into him.

Viceroy. And while the Tibetans empty himself, before anything population and resources, the colonies would separate as ripe the three Royal Household of Dalai Lama was sending missions fruit drops from the branch. In

fficials. They are also Govern- to the Tsar of Russia and receiv-1 The Vision Of Empire his biography of King Edward ment Whips and very busy men. ing presents from him.

Gradually the opposition began VII., Sir Sidney Lee points out They divide their whole time .be-

to give way. Nothing had been that Lord Palmerston, who had tween the Court and the. Com- The Duke of Gloucester, who is become Prime Minister in 1859, mons. Their present pay is £675,

Tibetan Obstinacy

agreed to. No one man-not even the New Zealand is about to under on foreign affairs to consider now on his way to Australia and concentrated too much attention

The result of all this disagree to one single clause of the Regent was prepared to Your Daily Smile!

courtesy was that in 1904 Lord treaty.. Yet it was becoming evi- take, under the happiest auspices, colonial problems

Curzon despatched a mission to dent that if all could be made res- a tour which will add one to a thoroughness, and alone among sentence is passed on you?" American Judge:-"Have

Tibet to come to terms with them, ponsible all would agree. So the any anything to offer the court before settle the frontier, six definite principle of collective respon series deliberately designed and his colleagues the Duke of New-

places at which trade between sibility was adopted. brilliantly compassed as a contri- castle, Secretary of State for the our: my lawyer has taken my last on, and arrange for means for presence, of the Chinese Resident. family to the consolidation of the the Prince of Wales, had identi- bution by the British Royal Colonies, who joined the suite of

Culprit: "Nothing, your Hon-India and Tibet could be carried

All were had up together in the Empire. A Royal tour is most fied himself with the nascent

communicating with the Tibetan Pressite was then put on justly assessed if it is placed in conception of a commonwealth of

authorities. historical perspective. It is pos-British nations. Under the cir your plea of guilty after the White, who had served for many lagreed. And that no one person Sounded Good ·

To the charge of this mission I there would be trouble.

If they did not sign within a week sible to exaggerate the signicumstances, the despatch of two

Judge: "You cannot withdraw was appointed, and Mr. Claude ficance of a popular welcome for of the Princes on colonial mis hearing of your case.”

All professed horror. But all which the stage has been set and sions was an act of Royal states-final speech has convinced me

years on that frontier, and Mr.should have the odium of agree- the atmosphere to some extent manship distinctly in advance of that I am innocent."

Accused: "But my counsel's (now Sir Ernest) Wilton, of the ing, it was arranged that the scals prepared, but it is no less easy to public opinion in England, though

Chinese Consular Service, were of the Dalai Lama, the National underrate the importance of the probably not in the colonies, and

appointed Assistant Commis-Assembly, the Council, and the Royal purpose which enlists princely ambassador and to for future of Imperial relationships. night," he began. "I dreamed I frontier. But these had no result.

& one which sensibly influenced the

At first attempts were made to teries should all be affixed to the Abbots of the three. Great Monas- get that the visit bears resulta in

grand dream last negotiate just within the Tibetan treaty. London as well as in Sydney or of Wales proved equal to an occa-brook with a wonderful girl by my increased and placed under the should take place in the Potala it- Fortunately, the young Prince was walking beside a babbling Then the escort was considerably that the signing of the treaty Melbourne; that when the pulse sion of perhaps. unsuspected side. She had eyes which rivaled charge of Brig-Gen. Macdonald, self. Fortunately, all went well. The Commissioner had insisted of Empire beats more strongly in significance. President Buchanan, the violets which grew on the and Canberra or Wellington it must in a message to Congress, refer-mossy bank; her hair was like Gyantse, halfway to Lhasa. Still staff in their beautiful silk official stimulate Imperial policy in red to the Prince's sojourn in the the gold of the sunbeams; her the Tibetans would not negotiate, robes were present.

ад advance was made to The Chinese Resident and his Ottawa, Pretoria, and London United States in the private face was- These considerations become ex character he assumed when he plicit if they are placed against left Canada as "a most auspicious terrupted the girl.

At Gyantam acvere fighting took British Commissioner "And did she have a job? In-place for two mouths, and even-Chinese Resident were the Highest Opposite the their historical background.

and the event" and there is evidence that The first heir to the British the American demonstrations of

tually an advance to Lhasa itself Lamas and laymen in Tibet, wear- had to be made. throne to cross the Atlantic was goodwill, he evoked assisted to the late King Edward as a youth ease the tension created between

As we neared our goal our and priestly robes.

jing their quaint heard-dresses and of 18, and the success of his visit Washington and London', when

citement increased. We knew to Canada and the United States the American Civil War broke

and that its roof was of barnished paper in the three versions, Eng- that the Potala, the Dalat, Lama's that their copy

The Tibetans had stipulated paved the way for the subsequent out a few months later. The fer-

palace, stood on a prominent hill should be written on one sheet of of the treaty Royal tours to Australia and your of the Canadian welcome other dominions. Canada had moved English public opinion.

gold. Each day enthusiasts blah, Tibetan and Chinese: So an furnished a regiment of Infantry jand helped to make the Empire

lieved they detected through every immense document, seven feet in for the Crimean War, and had re-a reality. Other Royal tours

notch in the mountains and round length, was produced, and to the quested Queen Victoria to visit followed:

every corner a ray from the glittreaty in each of the three langu Seven the colony. As this was deemed Queen Victoria's second son came a crime to have arms in your And the reality beat the expecta-ing the magnificent jada seal of

years later

tering palece. "If you did not know that is was impracticable,

At last we were of Lhasa itsell be fixed, the Regent leading bear- ages each of the five seals had to Canadian to Australia. Edward, who as possession in the Colony, why did tion. It is an ideal sacred city. It the Dalai Lama. Government had asked that one Prince of Wales had become an you hide them in the false bottom lies in a wide valley 12,000 ft. Then to each of these the Bri- of her sons should be sent as apostle of Empire, approved of of your box?" asked Mr. E. 1. above sea-level. Round it on tish Commissioner affixed his Governor-General Their youth his two eldest sons visiting Aus Wynne Jones when Ng To-shun, a every side are lofty mountains, signature and seal. The same prevented this, but Queen Victralia as mere boys, and one of 26-year-old clerk of the Third Route many capped with eternal snow. toria, anxious to conciliate Cana- his first decisions as King was to Army, who was charged at the Lhasa's Magnificence dian opinion, had promised that confirm the visit of the present Kowloon Magistracy this morning, the Prince of Wales should make King and Queen which Queen with having in his possession on is set on a hill rising steeply out

process had to be gone through the journey in her stead as soon Victoria had planned.

The Palace of the Grand Lama and Peking.

with copies for Calcutta, London King board the 8.8. Heari Reviere four of the valley. It is most massive-

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The Real Thing "I had a

ARMS SMUGGLER ARRESTED

Fails To Elude Police Ship Searchers

CHINESE ARMY CLERK

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as he was old enough. It was George, with an even more inti Mauser pistols, 402 rounds of am-ly built of solid masonry into the decided at the same time that mate knowledge of the Empire munition and 40 ammunition clips, rock, till palace and rock look, all Prince Alfred should lay the than his father possessed, has pleaded that he was a newcomer ono natural feature, more impres foundation-stone of the break-sent two of his sons to these to the Colony and was not aware sive even thann Edinborgh Caats. water in Capetown harbour shores, and is now a visite na of the Laws, Sockelt. Dambrowsk

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Gambling Charges

Thus, on the Initiative of the third. each Royal Queen and the Prince Consort, each constitutional development stated that while searching passen pleasant a situation. In and

We camped outside the town an Hostess And Guests On the Royal family commenced to within the Empire has but em-gers baggage on Tuesday, a detec-around Lhasa were nearly 20,000 Detective Sergeant Danbrowsky Aug. 3. But we were in none too play its part-to quote the Prince phasised the prescience of the tive picked up the defendant's monks bitterly opposed to our pre- A birthday party, held last Consort the development of Queen and Prince Consort who wooden box and heard some thing sence, and of a very aggressive night on the third floor of No. those distant and rising countries realised before their contera rattle. In the bottom of it. After nature. The Grand Lama, who 99B, Wellington Street, cost Chan who recognise in the British poraries the vision which is en all the contenta had been taken was head of the chill Government Kwal; a 20-year-old married wo Crown and their allegiance to it shrined in every British heart their supreme bond of union with to-day. the Mother Country and with each other." The words sound almost hackneyed now Their substance, if not their form, has been repeated over and over again, and will be echoed many times in Australia this year. But in England in 1860 the presented a new and highly troversial outlook.The cor

out the box wee heavy and as well as spiritual- leader, had man, $20 at the Central Mag

PIG-IRON OUTPUT SHOWS SHARP SLUMP

New York To da flon of pig-iron

during 898,0 tons

of Empire, sa, we understand it. tons In Angost was but slowly taking shape, and S. Levy and Compan

still rattled, so they broke the bot-withdrawn. He had, indeed, aptracy this morning when she ap tom open and found the arms pack-pointed a high Lama as Regent, peared before Mr. Q-A.

ed in cotton wool concealed in a Negotiating a treaty promised to fadyen on a charge of keeping a false bottom, which was about two be a slow process,

inches deep.

In tackling the situ Defendant's papers stated that be fra thing to do was produc was on three months leave and was Tibetana accustomed

to Pakhalalle » had over $280 in Hong Kong and Canton

of $200 was imposed, while rms and ammunition are to be

gaming house in her cubicle. Eight others, charged gambling, were fined $3. Kwai said that she invited friends, to her birthday party i they were just having a TRI

Katto

were $3.150pick

ed up from the Hoor following the raid.

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