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 |
CHAPTER XXII
A TENTATIVE PROPOSAL 1
THE Shantung Railway outrage has at last roused
people on the China coast to the state of China,
as it happened in their midst, whilst the far worse
state of some of the internal provinces was too
distant to cause any interest. Some of the
optimists at home also seem to have had a shock,
and are now realising among other things that
the curse of the poppy in China is now far worse
than it has ever been before.
China is the country of anomalies, and whilst
the foreigner is more likely to be kidnapped and
held up to ransom at the present time, yet there
are fewer cases of foreigners (generally mission-
aries, as they form the greater number of white
men living in the interior) being killed, and of
foreign buildings and mission stations being
looted. So far one bright spot, in the constant
pillaging of cities and towns, has been that
mission stations and foreign property have either
always or generally been spared. This is a point
that I have not seen noticed in the papers, and
may perhaps show that in many respects the
anti-foreign feeling is not so strong as it used to
1 Written by General Pereira in July 1923.
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