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Show I8B1TISH SOLDIERS ' BON INTO AMBUSH Tibetans Set Trap to Massacre Mail Escort Near Gyang Tse, Tibet, a- ONDQN, May 21. A party of B mounted Infantry with mall JLy bags was ambushed two miles from here on Thursday, says a dispatch from the London Times correspondent cor-respondent at Gyang Tse, Tibet. The eighteen soldiers composing the escort fought gallantly but lost one man killed, two men wounded and seven horses killed and wounded. When CapL Ottley with a relieving party came out twelve to fifteen Tibetans Tibet-ans were seen dead. Ottley drove tho enemy across two farms but found them j In great numbers occupying villages on both sides of the river four miles south of Gyang Tse, and was compelled to retire. re-tire. One mall bag was lost. It Is possible pos-sible that the dally post will now be. discontinued. |