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
372 THE ATTITUDE OF THE TIBETANS
sway had so far been prohibited to Chinese, any who did
enter being skinned alive. In the winter of 1905 a small
Chinese official with twenty soldiers had come to this
stronghold with a summons to the Abbot to swear his
allegiance to China, but the Lamas had treated him with
contumely.
Chao now bombarded the monastery, but the walls were
20 feet high and 4 feet thick, and at the four corners stood
high square towers pierced with loopholes for rifle-fire,
and against this the bombardment was ineffective. The
country people harassed the besiegers from the surrounding
hills, and the Chinese were unable to make an entrance
till June 19, and then only by a ruse. The garrison, by
deaths, sickness, and desertion, had been reduced to 1,000
men. The Abbot himself had, in despair, committed suicide.
But Chao got some friendly Tibetans to say they had come
as a relief, and induce the garrison to open the gates. The
ï1, ruse was successful. The Lamas streamed out of the back
gate, but only to find themselves surrounded by Chinese,
who slaughtered them almost to a man.
For excessive severity in connection with this siege
and in other places, and for extensive looting of the
lamasery, Chao was impeached by a censor. He never-
theless succeeded in establishing Chinese authority, and,
before the year was closed, in converting Batang into a
Chinese province, laying down for its governance regula-
tions* which are particularly worthy of note.
The head T'u Ssu (chief) and the assistant T'u Ssu
having been beheaded, the office of T'u Ssu was abolished
for ever. Both the Chinese and the tribesmen of Batang
vcrere henceforth to be subjects of the Emperor of China,
and subject to the jurisdiction of Chinese officials ; and
the district of Batang, together with the Chinese and
tribesmen resident therein, were to be under the adminis-
tration of Chinese officials. The people were forbidden
to style themselves subjects of the Lamas or of the T'u
Ssu. And being subjects of the Emperor, every man was
to shave his head and wear the queue. Headmen of
villages were to be elected for triennial periods by the
* Blue-book, IV., p. 98.
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