The Virgin Orient by Camille Mauclair

Author:Camille Mauclair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Coat Press

V. The Descent from the North

Some time after the battle, important news reached the general staff. The cannoneers coming up the branches of the Indus confirmed it in part. Hyderabad had surrendered after dogged resistance, to the corps disembarked in Gujarat along the chain of the Vindhyas. There was talk of a great unresolved conflict outside Allahabad. Cruisers returned from Surat announced the destruction of two Japanese fleets and the investment of Hong Kong. In Indo-China, grave dissents between the Burman princes and the Japanese generals were paralyzing the Yellow action.

Time passed; the immense installation of military telegraphs was completed. They ended up receiving god news from central India. The other Hyderabad, the antique Golconda crazy for precious stones, was occupied, Nizam invaded. A dissent between Thugs and allies had neutralized the terrible sect of stranglers there. It was thought that in Bengal the route of the Ganges would be open to the Civilized. Nothing essential had been modified in the original plan.

Extraordinary stories were running around. Parsee troops were coming over to the Europeans; their anarchism, in revolt against the autocracy of the rajahs, threw them into the lap of the men of the West. The intrusion of the Japanese also irritated them; between the power of Tokyo and the opposed power, sects that could not choose were agitating dully; popular Hindustan was beginning to seethe of its own accord.

The heritage of its gods and its fatalities could only be stolen by the regulars of one invasion or the other, and the authoritarian advent of the Sino-Japanese in the sacred territory insulted multiple fanaticisms, united in an ambition of autonomy. Placards bearing images circulated; passwords were discovered. The people murmured that it was superfluous to have expelled the English only to see Japanese hordes and European hordes quarreling on the sacred soil. A detestation of uniforms, engines and tactics was excited in the anonymous crowd. But the success of the civilized rallied the instinctive servility of the lower classes.

Dessort, arrived from Europe, stimulated these secret conflagrations with his genius. In a few weeks, he penetrated the mechanism and multiplied its importance tenfold, finding the simple forms that it required to propagate them in India. An association of indigenous couriers took adroit instructions from him, and spread swarms of men into his provinces, bearers of false news and promises. The Japanese armies that were stationed in the region were irritating, by virtue of their exigent arrogance, by their costly presence and the fear of remaining that was visibly established within them, by their European weapons and the cold discipline of their manner. The quarrels in Burma were reported deceptively; the scorn of the Japanese generals for the leaders of the Thugs and the irregulars of Nizam was recounted from one brigade to another.

With a lucid diplomatic subtlety, Dessort propagated the seeds of dissent between Orientals and Yellows, creating racial conflicts in the very bosom of the enemy. The Parsees aided him powerfully; cruel and intelligent, held in suspicion, they were

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