RUSSIAN INTERESTS IN TIBET.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11753, 30 November 1903, Page 8

RUSSIAN INTERESTS IN TIBET.

A COUNTER-IRRITANT SDGGESTED. United.Pwjss Electric ST. PEIBRSBTJRO, November 27. The newspaper "Novoe Vremy*" de-: dare* that if the projects in. Tibet are .executed, British preaQge in the eye* of 600,000,000. Buddhtsfa. -rill be .oomplrteljv restored. The beet way for Russia;teMl& the Tibetan* would be to exercise ''ja ; Mu& preastue: eleewhere, 'areating 'a. disagreeaU*' to British' pohtioii^^^p?^'

On receipt of the wws tk&m?. Brlti-i Government waa to despatch to Tibet the expedition now in that'oOimtry, t_e- M Novoe Ifitili last put. forward the claim that, Tibet belongs to Russia by the right of, priority in. exploration. VThe article in qneation, after referring to We-vtona-;abortive attempt* to reach Lhasa the residence of the Didai Laino, gave particulara qf the intentions of the Britiah expedition, which it declwed Waa due to the "anxiety of the Government of British India to repair the; aad state into which IndoTibetan trada had fallm. The regulations established for that tirade' by the AngloChinese Convention of 1890 were so nnsatisfactory that they oould not be applied in practice; and in tlie opinion of Great Britain the, frontier also betWOea India and Tibet was in wont of definite demarcation. In order to arrive a* a solution of theie queetione, the -Britiih Government i entered into commanl«/tic_ with the TSbo-1 tun authorities through the Government of' China, with the reanlt that the Dalai Luna j conoeuted; to appoint jpknipotetrtiaries for I negotiations. The principal plenipotentiary appointed on the part of England is Major -Younghiuband, and the expedition is now at work. ■ ■ : •■• .. The "Noyoe Vremyft" said:—. "Thus the (English have decided to oubject Tibet to their influence. India is too amah for them, and therefore they deeire to extend ite frontiens en the north. While hoping in the future to obtain possession of the valley of the Yang-Use, the English are taking timely atapa to secure their rigbta orer the conniGty in which thi» Chinese 'Nile takes ite rise. Tbe succeat achieved by England hi rery considerable. as the negotiations of .Major Younghtwfaand will be the flrot example ot direct relations on the part of foreigner, with the Government of tlie Dalai Lama. This action of the English in Tibet amnot be considered a threat to anybody, nor can it affect anybody's interests, «a that mysterious country haa eo> fur remained outaride the sphere of international politiost. Bat nevertheless we Russian* have a right to Tibet in tha capacity of the finit explorers of that country, ana! therefore we cannot, "without a feeling of a-dnesa, tohe note of this "Bog.' lish invsodon oJ[ the Dalai Lame. "In any case, Tibet ia of immense importance far domination in Central Aaia. Whoever become* maater in the residence of the .Dalai Lam* will undoubtedly enjoy great prestige and in__tnce throughout the Buddhist world." .