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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Darjeeling. On the other hand, imagine Russian
columns starting from Osh or Irkutsk, *even with a
suppliant court in Pekin*, and you may imagine time
for British agents to spread the news across desert
and ocean, time for British concentration at Darjeel-
ing, time for the sack of Lhasa, all before a rem-
nant of the devoted Cossacks should have time to
struggle into the valley of Tsang-po, asking but one
boon of the British—to be captured and fed.
This enormous difference in the physical relations
of Tibet toward the north and toward the south, is
a vital fact in the consideration of the probable
complications. That the view here expressed is not
a peculiar one, appears from the familiar recitals of
distress experienced by all the explorers, with their
small and specially equipped caravans. As shown
in one of the appendices,¹ it is moreover a view held
by some distinguished and expert British authorities.
But let us suppose the incredible to have been ac-
complished; that the supine Lion has permitted the
outrageous Bear to hibernate in Lhasa's monas-
teries, and that the whole world has definitely
yielded the "Chinese integrity" policy,—a supposi-
tion which involves satisfaction of enormous appe-
tites by a wholesale cutting up of the Chinese body,
wrongly supposed to be a dead carcass.
Russia can get no substantial benefit out of
Tibetan occupation *per se*. She would find it ex-
ceedingly difficult — impossible, I think, to hold
Lhasa against any Tibetan liberating effort. Rus-
sian soldiers must be fed, and only constant physical
pressure at the centre would bring in food from
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