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0339 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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race, on the other the outraged sensibilities of war-
like, ignorant tribes, it is obvious that a big crop
of V.C.'s and D.S.O.'s must be the result.
It is just a little pathetic, this thought that in the
world of printed history, each such quarrel, with its
attending tragedies, is reported as "an unwarranted
attack upon British territory,'' or again "a maraud-
ing expedition boldly projecting itself over our
frontier.'' We shall never know how cruelly exas-
perating it must be to the disinherited—this seizure,
on paper, of unmarked lands to-day, the outcry of
injured sovereignty to-morrow, the hastening of the
"punitive column'' the third day, fresh seizure of
unmarked lands the fourth day, and so on *ad
infinitum*.
The algebraic sum of all the soliciting forces has
been in the direction of advance—west, north, east
—ever advance. Baluchistan has been conquered
and held; Afghanistan has been marauded piteously
in two campaigns emblazoned with death, heroism,
and decorations, but the bold and crafty Afghans
could not be subjected; the Chitral and the empty
Pamirs have been sentinelled; the uncouth Baltis
have been punished and controlled; pacific Ladak
remains an outpost of empire, though in a Mahar-
ajah's name; Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan have been
forced to obey orders from Calcutta, and now,
because a Bhuriat from far-away Lake Baikal has
taken photographs in Lhasa and seduced the Dalai
Lama into the courtesy of gift-making to the Czar,
lo! Tibet is visited with the hot breath of war—
and a thousand skeletons testify to the prowess of
the white man; to the glory of Christ and to the