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0344 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / 344 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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Strength. And it must be borne in mind that such
a series of incredible events cannot be supposed to
be isolated. Russia cannot issue from the Hima-
layan passes except when war shall wrap the world
around. And I say, if she should, the diversion of
strength necessary to produce even the wretched
tragedy in which her effort must end, would be a
play for England's benefit; worse than futile, as all
madhouse work, in the end, must be, when in con-
test with sane purpose.
But let us now suppose that possession of Tibet
(for nothing less than possession consists with the
efficacy of Clause IX. of the Younghusband treaty)
is deemed necessary as against mere intrigue by
Russian agents. That it may be anything more
than child's play, this intrigue must bear fruit of
action, eventually of war or threat of war, against
British power. To do this, its effects must leap the
Himalayas, those great barriers which now are made
higher than nature would have them, by the fears
of the Tibetans. The, intrigue, then, must be ef-
fective to reverse their policy of isolation—against
which the British complain; it must cause the
Goorkhas, now shut out from Tibet, to take up
arms against the Indian Empire, in alliance with
—how ludicrous it all is!—in alliance with the
poor creatures whom the British word of command
has just shot down as one would kill sheep in a
crowded fold.
And these who are to set the Goorkhas on fire are
not of their creed or of their blood, nor of the creed
or blood of any of the great races of India. By the
adoption of a religion which India rejected, Tibet