BRITAIN AND TIBET

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5

BRITAIN AND TIBET

ADVICE TO CHINA. WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS URGED, LIBERAL PRESS SUSPICIOUS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Gopyrlcht (Rcc. August 30, 11.30 p.m.) Poking, August 30. Sir John Jordan, British Minister at Poking, in a memorandum to tho Chiiieso Government, declares tlmt the Tibetans should bo allowed to manago their own internal affairs. Sir John Jordan suggests that China should withdraw her. troops from Tibet and send a representative to Lhassa to adviso tho Tibetans in their foreign policy. Ho deprecates China's using of India as a highway to Tibet, and concludes by recommending tho conclusion of a now agreement between Great Britain and China as prerequisite to the recognition of tho Chinese Republic by tho British Government.

"HECTORING DIPLOMACY." BARGAIN WITH RUSSIA SUGGESTED. (Rec. August 30, 10.30 p.m.) London, August 30. Tho "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal) contrasts Great Britain's indifference to Persia's independence with her championing of Tibet. Sir John Jordan's hectoring diplomacy, it says, is something new and unpleasant and is possibly tho result of a Russian suggestion. Has Russia agreed to keep out of Tibot in order to secure British acquiescence in her Mongolian schemes, to which Japan with a Manchurian quid pro quo is passively agreeable? j

Tho "Daily News" doubts whether Sir Edward Grey is empowered to insist on tho right to determine the preciso relation between China and Tibet. Any scheme for a British protectorate'would bo perilous folly.