THE MARCH ON LHASSA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 13 May 1904, Page 2

THE MARCH ON LHASSA.

CABLE NEWS. United Press Association.—By T«1»J graph.—Copyright. '

BRITISH FORCE AT GYANQ-TBEX SURPRISED. A NARROW ESCAPE. ' ' THIBET A HOT-BED OP TREACHERY, , , LONDON, May JJ. A force of Thibetans smprWd Gyang-tse and almost suocootled "M capturing It. >■ Eight hundred men gained thp walls of the compound, "their shouts betrayed their presence, onabling tho defenders to sell* weapons, * The Thlbotana were repulsed itftW. two hours' fighting. They ni'W occupy a fortillcd post In the vicinity ■ and constantly fire on the camp. ■ The Times' Gyang-tse com*liorMl* eivt says .that every week's (lelft.t ifk' ablos superior arms and ammunition to be manufactured at Lhnsca tiSd used by the enemy* While Captain Parr, who In Acting as Chinese Joint Commissioner, was absent accompanying Colonel llmiMcr to Kara Pass, the Thibelnni, butchered Ms four servants. Parr tUun escaped by an accident. Sfoiiix itwas useless to remain, to ntlrnVwd " to Ya-tungl wWi his colleague, ' The Chinese General Ma duDta-aitf-' ly and treacherously the plot against Colonel YounghusWfiut, who has consistently upheld the th» ory of Chinese suzerainty. (Received May 12,11.45 p.m.) , LONDON, May 27i ■ The Thibetans totalled three thousand at Kara Pass. In the encounter at the wall nearly (our hundred men were killed.