CHINA AND TIBET.
KILLING WOMENFOLK TO SAVE THEM.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press (Association.]
Pekin, July f.
The Tibetans repulsed the Chinese besieging Hsangchen. A hundred were drowned while fording the Lamaya river. When the Tibetans were first surrounded they killed their own women and children before attacking the Chinese, lest they fall into Chinese hands.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 53, 8 July 1913, Page 2
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56CHINA AND TIBET. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 53, 8 July 1913, Page 2
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