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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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rapidly grew, when the Tibetans begged him to
desist from entering their country. Soon it became
an army of about ten thousand men all told.
The commissioner indicates at once his mild at-
titude by declaring that he will not negotiate at the
point within Tibetan territory which his hosts have
nominated. Imagine that message coming from a
man leading an army into your country; imagine
the nauseating hypocrisy of it; imagine the terror,
the despair, the final frenzy of it among the victims
of this Christian-led force of Mohammedans and
Hindoos going into a land of monkish farmers and
shepherds! There was honest hope, stupidly in-
dulged, that the poor creatures would yield their
country without a fight. They were known to be
helpless, but they were not known to be heartless,
and why Colonel Younghusband continued to nego-
tiate for the control of the country before shooting
a goodly number and thus satisfying their natural
desire for effort and for sacrifice one hardly knows.
Could he be Machiavellian enough to have con-
sidered that every day's delay meant a larger in-
demnity; could he have tarried until that indemnity
reached a figure which meant indefinite occupation
of the country? No, it is not probable, yet pos-
sible.ยน The probability is that his course was
merely halting from two causes: an honourable
desire to avoid bloodshed, and a stupid belief that
he could accomplish his object without it.
There were the usual delays of waiting for Chinese
Ambans, tentative discussion, frantic appeals by
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