IIIFカラー高解像度
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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
188 GYANTSE
men turned out. Then as at Guru, once the single
favourable moment had flashed by, nothing but disaster j
lay before them. The attack began at about 4.30, and
did not cease till nearly 6.30, but in that time they had
left about 250 dead and wounded round our post.
Personally, 1 did not deserve to get through the
attack unscathed, for directly I was out of my tent I
made straight for the Mission rendezvous. I was in my
pyjamas, and only half awake, and the first thought that
struck me was to go to the rendezvous, agreed upon before-
hand, in what we called the citadel. But I ought, as I
did on other occasions—and as I think always should be
done in cases of any sudden attack—to have made straight
for the wall with whatever weapon came to hand, and
joined in repelling the attack during the few crucial
moments.
Major Murray, as soon as he had repelled the attack,
pursued the enemy for about two miles down the Shigatse
road. But it now became evident that this attacking
party was not the only force of Tibetans in the neighbour-
hood, and that another of similar strength had occupied
the jong, for these latter began firing into our post, and
we gradually came to realize that we were now besieged.
It turned out from information received from prisoners
that these troops had been collected by a General recently
appointed by the Lhasa Government, and that it was
accompanied by a representative of the great Gaden
monastery at Lhasa, by two clerks of the Dalai Lama,
and by other Lhasa officials. It was, therefore, no mere
local rising, but an attack deliberately planned by the
Central Tibetan Government.
For a few days, till Colonel Brander returned, we were
in a critical position, and we were also anxious about
Colonel Brander himself. The worst that, in making our
calculations at Darjiling in November, we had deemed
likely to happen had happened, and we were now at the
straining-point. Major Murray, assisted especially by
Captain Ryder with his engineering experience, strength-
ened the post as far as possible during the day, and at
night we looked out watchfully for a further attack. For
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