THE FLIGHT OF TI Hl DALAI LAMA.
ITO TUB EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.•') SIR,—" Namsangiya," writing in your issue of March 12th, says :— " I regret that the results of the Younghusband Mission were thrown away by the present Government, which has withdrawn our troops from the Chumbi Valley. Our frontier policy of shilly- shally is disheartening to our friends and an encouragement to our enemies."
Whether or not the results of the Younghusband Mission have been thrown away by the present or by any Government it would not become me to discuss. I may, however, be per- mitted to suggest that an examination of the Convention concluded at Lhasa by Sir Francis Younghusband will show that, the stipulations on which our occupation of the Chumbi Valley was conditioned having been performed, simple good faith towards the Tibetans required our withdrawal. It was the honourable discharge of an obligation.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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