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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
FIGHT AT PALLA 195
fought stubbornly, as they always did in these villages, but
Major Peterson pressed steadily on, and by 1.30 the
village was in Colonel Brander's hands.
Our losses were, besides Lieutenant Garstin, Royal
Engineers killed, Captain O'Connor, Lieutenant Mitchell,
32nd Pioneers, Lieutenant Walker, Royal Engineers, and
nine men wounded. It was a heavy casualty list for our
little garrison to sustain, but the capture of the village
was a great shock to the Tibetans, who till then, accord-
ing to a Chinaman whom Mr. Wilton met when accom-
panying orie of our sorties, had become very truculent,
and talked of first attacking us and cutting all our
throats, and then murdering all Chinese.
The Palla village was occupied by our troops, and at
1.30 on the morning of May 30 the Tibetans, who had for
long been trying to screw themselves up for an attack
upon us, attacked both this and a Gurkha outpost we had
established. It was a beautiful sight to watch, with the
jong keeping up a heavy fire on us, and the houses at the
foot of the jong firing away hard on the village. But the
Tibetans were easily repulsed, for Colonel Brander had
been careful to fortify the place well, and the Tibetans
after this never ventured to take the offensive against
us, and the tide now definitely began to turn.
I therefore now with less reluctance wrote letters to the
Resident and .Dalai Lama, saying that we were ready to
negotiate at Gyantse up to June 25, but that unless by
that date the Resident and competent negotiators had
arrived, we would insist upon negotiations being carried
on at Lhasa. The letters, together with a covering letter
to the Tibetan commander in the jong, were sent by the
hands of prisoners. Before undertaking their delivery,
however, the bearers stipulated that they should be
allowed to return to us as prisoners, which was a signifi-
cant commentary on the method of enlistment of the
Tibetan forces opposing us. The next morning the letters
were returned by the Tibetan General, who said that it
was not their custom to receive communications from the
English.
On the afternoon of June 5 I received instructions
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