Show WAR WITH TIBETANS GREAT BRITAIN HAS TROUBLES OF H HEft ER OWN I 1 I 1 1 I bridith forces force the engagement being marked by heavy losses looe on the native side I 1 I 1 1 news has been lit at tuna british india of a severe vete fight ne lillig lag tho the tibetans Tibe tans having attacked the british mission under colonel there were two engagements and the there tibetans Tibe tans were repulsed with heavy loss ass the british captured tho the tibe tan camp at guru while the british advance virtually bad been unopposed the expedition suffered great hardship from the intense cold and it was sometimes found impossible to work the maxim guns and rifles tilling oil log to the congealing ol of the oil the country Is ot of the bleakest blea kest without a 21 sign ol of vegetation and tile the expedition tion had to face piercing winds find and clouds of 0 dust while there was a heavy fait all ot of snow enow the night previous to tho the tight fight the tibetans Tibe tans lost heavily awing to the inferiority of their weapons weapon which were matchlock rifles but they displayed the tea greatest courage many of 0 them coming on eten eien after they had bad been seriously wounded after the action there were heaps of 0 dead a long trail of dead and wounded extending to the rear I 1 finally the tibetans Tibe tans retreated over the bills with the exception of about sixty who obstinately held the village which was wag finally taken by a mounted bayonet charge it among the tibetans Tibe tans killed were the general the military commandant of charl and lata nil and the representative of the golden monastery to whose influence and violent hostility the existing difficulties were largely due the tibetan losses are believed to bo be over while the british casualties were about a doben |