§ MR. O'GRADYTo ask the Secretary of State for India if the 2,400,000 taels to be paid by China as the cost of the Younghusband expedition will be allocated to the Indian Exchequer, as the cost was borne by such Exchequer; whether, having regard to the fact that a special commissioner was to be sent to Calcutta to negotiate a treaty of settlement with China on behalf of Tibet in the matter of the Younghusband expedition, he will say why such treaty was signed in Pekin instead of Calcutta; whether the Grand Lama of Tibet is still alive; and whether, as the result of the present treaty of settlement, the Grand Lama, if still alive, will be restored to power and place by the British Government.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. JOHN MORLEY,) Montrose Burghs(1.) The indemnity payable under the Tibet Convention will be allocated to the Indian Exchequer. (2.) The negotiations conducted at Calcutta by the special Chinese Commissioner, having proved abortive, they were renewed at Pekin at the instance of the Chinese Government, and the Treaty has accordingly been signed there. (3.) As far as I am aware, there is no reason to doubt that the Dalai Lama is still alive. (4.) Neither the Tibet Convention nor the
† See Column 233.402 Treaty with China gives the British Government the right to interfere with, the form of the Government of Tibet.