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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
176 TUNA
It was the last and final effort to carry out our object
without the shedding of blood. The troops responded
with admirable discipline to the call. 'l'hey steadily ad-
vanced across the plain and up the hillside to the Tibetan
lines, expecting at any moment that from behind the
sangars a destructive volley might be opened upon them
before they could fire a shot. Some of them afterwards,
and very naturally, told me that they hoped they would
never again be put in so awkward a position. But I trust
their discipline will at any rate show to those in England
who so decried this day's action, and spoke about our
" massacring unarmed Tibetans "—that men on the re-
motest confines of the Empire can and do exercise
moderation and restraint in the discharge of their duty,
and do not always act with that wantonness and reckless
cruelty with which they are so often credited at home.
If General Macdonald had had a perfectly free hand,
and had been allowed to think only of military considera-
tions, he would have attacked the Tibetans by surprise in
their camp, without giving them any warning at all ; and
even after I had given the Tibetans warning, if he had still
been free to act on only military lines, he would have
shelled their position with his guns, and with long-range rifle-
fire have broken down the defence before advancing to the
attack. As it was, in order to give them a chance up
to the very last moment, he abdicated both the advantage
of surprise and of long-range fire, and his troops advanced
up the mountain-side on less than even terms to the
fortified position of the Tibetans.
The 'Tibetans on their side showed great indecision.
They also had apparently received orders not to fire first ;
and the whole affair seemed likely to end in comedy rather
than in the tragedy which actually followed. The Tibetans
first ran into their sangars and then ran out again.
Gradually our troops crept up and round the flanks. They
arrived eventually face to face with the Tibetans, as will
be seen in the accompanying photograph by Lieutenant
Bailey, and things were almost at an impasse till the
Tibetans slowly yielded to the admonitions of our troops,
and allowed themselves to be shouldered out of their
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