IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
| 北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
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引用情報
LAN-CHOW TO TANGAR 99
Yuan-shih-kai it was banned ; and these two
rulers of China deserve credit for the work they
did in suppressing it. But under the corrupt
officials of the Republic it has not only been
allowed but sometimes its growth has been forced
upon the people, so that the officials might make
money by putting a tax upon it. When an in-
vestigating foreign Consul comes to make inquiries
the officials, having pocketed their " squeeze "
tax, order the poppies to be pulled up and then
declare that poppy-growing is still forbidden. In
only a few provinces of China is it now forbidden.
One very sad sight Pereira saw at Lan-chow.
This was General Annenkoff's Russian refugees.
Two years before, he had retreated from Siberia
to Urumchi with six hundred men and a flock
of refugees fleeing from the Bolshevists. The
Chinese Governor had induced him to disarm and
hand over his money about three million roubles
in gold. Whilst he himself was temporarily de-
tained as a hostage his troops and refugees
gradually filtered through to Peking. They
arrived at Lan-chow practically destitute and
herded together in two or three wretched inns.
A miserable dole (in paper money), just enough to
enable them to sustain life, is grudgingly dealt
out to them. But their hardships in this part of
their journey were much lightened by the kind-
ness and generosity of Mons. Geerts. They could
not afford to eat meat and lived on dry bread
and tea. Officers sold their horses and women
their rings and jewels. Pereira visited these
Russians in their wretched inns and was aston-
ished to find what fatalists they were under such
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