Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-21 | Page 2 | Britons Drive Back Tibetans

BRITONS DRIVE BACK TIBETANS Attack the Enemy nnd Eopulse Them, With a Nominal Lobs. NEW YORK, May 20. A British force made a sortie this morning morn-ing in order to clear a house six hundred yards from the compounds which the Tibetans had occupied with sixty men, says a dispatch dis-patch from -tho London Times correspondent corre-spondent at Gyang Tse, Tibet. Everything Every-thing was carried out successfully just before dawn. The British casualties were Insignificant. The enemy resisted a quarter of an hour and It was necessary neces-sary to blow in the main doors. The guns from Jong joined in, but made poor practice In the darkness. The situation remains the same. Tho flight of the Chinese said to have been representing Gen. Ma, was apparently followed by greater activity In placing the Chinese quarter of Gyang Tse ln a Htatc of defense.