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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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or its immediate neighbourhood until the year of
our Lord 1904, when a British-led force of Indian
troops shot their way over defenceless villages to a
distracted capital.
The expulsion of Father Huc was not an isolated
episode in the history of an isolated country. It
grew out of one of the blackest crimes with which
our civilisation is chargeable. Will it not be suffi-
cient to say that the Chinese official who chanced
to be then at Lhasa was Ke-Shen, a man who had,
as signer, under duress, of a treaty at Canton in
1841, terminated the *opium war* and had thus par-
ticipated in his country's humiliation, as well as in
the disgrace of his country's enemy—England—
more shameful in success than China in defeat? For
fifty years the Pekin Government had endeavoured
to arrest the fatal traffic. Insignificant when the
Mogul emperors ruled India, it had grown with the
growth of British power. Declared illicit, it had
flourished in British hands; from British ships as
depots it defied Chinese authority in Chinese ports.
When, for a season, righteousness had prevailed;
when a Christian English officer had yielded up
twenty thousand smuggled poison-cases to be de-
stroyed; when they had been burned by ''heathen''
Chinese officers, zealous to protect their country
from a curse, then a Christian Government declared
war and forced by cannon's might a helpless people
to admit the baneful drug. And, even if not bane-
ful, even if it were ambrosia, what shame to override
—but why argue this *cause néfaste ?* Let it not be
rehearsed, for all have heard it, and let it not be
forgotten in judging all Chinese-European history
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