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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
ATTACK ON THE MISSION 187
posai to go out and attack the Tibetans on the pass before
they could attack our line of communication. I had stated,
verbally and in writing, to the Chinese and to the 'Tibetans
that we came to Gyantse to negotiate. Since our arrival
we had evacuated the jong, and General Macdonald, with
the greater part of the force, had returned to Chumbi.
There could be no question, then, that we meant to
negotiate and not to fight. Yet they still neither sent a
negotiator, nor said they had any intention to negotiate ;
instead they massed troops to attack us ; and I felt at
perfect liberty to let the commander of the Mission escort
take whatever means he liked to secure its safety.
On the same day, in view of the rumours of the hostile
attitude of the Tibetans towards Shigatse and of their
reinforcement by local levies, I placed the Gyantse Jong-
pen in custody in the British camp.
Colonel Brander set out on May 3, with three com-
panies of the :32nd Pioneers, one company 8th Gurkhas,
two 7-pounder guns and two Maxims, accompanied by
Mr. Wilton and Captain O'Connor, to assist him in case
Chinese or 'Tibetan officials were met with.
On May 4 Captain Walton's patients warned him that
some kind of attack on us at Gyantse was likely, and
Major Murray, 8th Gurkhas, who was in command during
Colonel Brander's absence, sent out a mounted patrol some
miles down the Shigatse road ; but they returned, report-
ing everything quiet.
At dawn the next morning the storm burst. I was
suddenly awaked by shots and loud booing close by my
tent. I dashed out, and there were Tibetans firing through
our own loopholes only a few yards off. From the Shigatse
direction a force of 800 men had marched all night, and
many, under cover of the darkness, had crept up under
the walls of our post. Then at dawn these suddenly
jumped up, and, supported by the remainder, made an
attempt to rusli our post, a substantial house with a
garden at one side, the wall of which we had loopholed.
In the first critical moment they almost succeeded. They
as nearly as possible forced an entrance, but were stoutly
held at bay by two gallant little Gurkha sentries till our
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