IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION 177
position and be 46 moved on," as London policemen would
disperse a crowd from Trafalgar Square.
At this point the two Lhasa Majors who had met me
previously in the day rode out again, and told me that
the Tibetans had been ordered not to fire, and begged
me to stop the troops from advancing. I replied that
we must continue the advance, and could not allow
any troops to remain on the road. There was a post
actually on the road, with a wall newly and deliberately
built across it, and it was obvious that if we were ever
to get to Gyantse the Tibetans behind that wall must be
removed. Yet I thought the affair was practically over.
The Tibetans were streaming away from their position
along the ridge, and had even begun to leave their post on
the road. Then a change came. The Lhasa General, or
possibly the monks, recalled the men to their post, and
an officer reported to General Macdonald that, though
surrounded by our troops, they refused to retreat : they
were not fighting, but they would not leave the wall they
had built across the road.
General Macdonald and I had a consultation together,
and agreed that in these circumstances the only thing to
do was to disarm them and let them go. We rode
together to the spot, and found the Tibetans huddled
together like a flock of sheep behind the wall. Our
infantry were in position on the hillside only 20 yards
above them on the one side ; on the other our Maxims
and guns were trained upon them at not 200 yards' dis-
tance. Our mounted infantry were in readiness in the
plain only a quarter of a mile away. Our sepoys were
actually standing up to the wall, with their rifles pointing
over at the Tibetans within a few feet of them. And the
Lhasa General himself with his staff was on our side of
the wall, in among our sepoys.
He had, of course, completely lost his head. Though
in command of some thousands of armed men, and though
I had given him ample warning of our intention to
advance, he was totally unprepared for action when our
advance was made. He had brought his men back into an
absurd position ; his action when he had got them back
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