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
ACTION AT KARO-LA 225
While the Gurkhas were slowly plodding up the
mountain-sides, I seated myself beside Major Fuller's
mountain battery, and watched the effects of gun-fire at
these altitudes. It was most interesting. The pass
itself was 16,600 feet, and the battery was a few hundred
feet above it, and was for some time firing at groups
5,000 yards away, and some of them on the glacier at
about 18,000 feet above the sea. In such a rare atmosphere
ordinary sighting and ordinary fuses were quite useless.
The shells would cleave through the thin air at very con-
siderably greater velocity than they would pass through
the thicker air at sea-level. All the sighting and the
timing of the fuses had, therefore, to be completely read-
justed by trial and guesswork. Despite this, however,
wonderfully accurate shooting was effected by these
splendid little guns, and it would have made all the differ-
ence to Colonel Brander if he had had them instead of the
useless 7-pounders.
The Gurkhas and Pathans, after a long and difficult
climb to 18,000 feet, turned the position, but the Tibetans
in the centre had not waited. They knew that the
dreaded mounted infantry would be after them, so each
determined that he, at any rate, would not be the last to
leave the position, and all had cleared off before our troops
arrived. Most, indeed, had retreated in the night, and in
reality only about 700 Kham men were left to hold the
position. Many of these escaped high up over the snows,
pursued only by our shrapnel shells. Our mounted
infantry reconnoitred up to within two miles of Nagartse
Jong, which was found to be occupied, while reports
came in that 1,300 more men from Kham were expected.
Nagartse was reached on the 19th, and close to it I was
met by a deputation from Lhasa. Here were signs of
negotiations at last. I said I would have a full interview
at three that afternoon, but must warn them at once that
it would be necessary for me to occupy the jong, and to
advance to Lhasa, though I was ready to negotiate on the
way. The deputation, which consisted of the Yutok Sha-pé, the Ta Lama, the Chief Secretary, and some monks, arrived in my camp shortly before the time appointed.
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