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0337 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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Whether or not the Russians, by attacking India,
would ever bring upon the world the most appalling
calamity which could befall it as an outgrowth of
present international jealousies, we may not know.
That reasonable precaution should be taken even
against this improbable atrocity, no responsible
officer would doubt. But there has been wide
difference of view among enlightened English states-
men—not all of them stay-at-homes either—as to
the wisdom of constantly advancing and lengthen-
ing a frontier whose character is now frankly mili-
tary. It has been strongly argued that strategical
advantage lay in the way of leaving upon an enemy
the burden of approaching over long lines which
are among the most difficult known in the world.
Even if the natives be more or less friendly to an
advancing European army, yet the natural obstacles
remain to wear away the force of the intended
blow. "Let us meet such an onset," say the ad-
vocates of this policy, "on a shorter front, drawn
within countries which are self-supporting, and near
to the great rich plains which are the only regions
worthy, in themselves, of permanent occupation.
Let us at least await the attempted seizure of the
unprofitable border-lands by our northern rival; let
us await some clearer evidence of Russia's intent
to dethrone us, before spending the treasure of
our subject-races, their bodies, and some precious
lives of our own people in the conquest of barren
mountains.
"If the attack is being prepared, it cannot be done
in a day or a week or a month; the sudden foray of
the mountain wolves against the defenceless lamb