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
'l'IBE'l'ANS A'1"i'ACK KANGMA 197
hand. This was a great strategical effort on the part
of the Tibetan commander, but it failed, because as soon
as the attack on our post was repulsed Major Murray
sallied forth, and in turn attacked the other Tibetan
parties, climbing the hillside and sending them helter-
skelter over the mountains.
Then we had some breakfast, and I proceeded on my
way to Chumbi. It was twenty-eight miles to the next
stage, at Kala Tso, and there was considerable risk of
r encountering Tibetans on the way ; but I argued that
a there was less risk immediately after a repulse than there
~) might be a day or two later. So I set out with twenty
; mounted infantry, Major Murray and his men having
to return to Gyantse. At Kala Tso I was welcomed by
h my old friends the 23rd Pioneers, under Colonel Hogge,
who had been our escort at Tuna during all that terrible
t winter.
I now replied to a telegram I had received in the
morning from Government, asking me to communicate
my views on the general situation by telegram, as they
wished to have them as soon as possible. I said, with
reference to the contention which had been made by
the military authorities that it would be impossible to
keep troops at Lhasa after the autumn, that in my
opinion " an effort should be made to quarter troops at
Lhasa for the winter, for if we retired to Chumbi in
November, we risked the loss of all the results of our
present efforts, and the Tibetans would be still more
obstructive." I computed that the Lhasa and Gyantse
valleys would support 1,000 men each. I hoped that
while the ample forces now being sent would break
down opposition during the summer months, it would
be possible to keep in Lhasa a garrison, like that then
at Gyantse, capable of holding its own for a whole winter.
I added that if it was the case, as the military said, that
troops could not be maintained in Lhasa during the
winter, I had better not go to Lhasa at all, for there was
little use in my commencing negotiations with two such
obstructive people as the Tibetans and Chinese in any
place where I could not stay a fall year, if necessary. I
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