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Show NO WARNING - OE ATTACK Tibetans Set Upon British WJiilc Officers Were r Eating: Lunch LONDON. April 2. The "India office gives out additional dispatches sentBy Col. YoungHusband concerning Thursday's Thurs-day's battle. The dispatches state that it was the L'hassa general who fired the first shot, thereby inciting the Tibetans Tib-etans to attack, and show that but for the fact that the Tibetans were so hemmed hem-med In that they could not use their weapons the British loss might have been much more serious. So little was the onset expected that the British officers of-ficers were eating sandwiches and adjusting ad-justing cameras. , Mr. Chandler, the correspondent of the Mall, was sitting unarmed, writing. He had a narrow escape from death, receiving twelve wounds. Col. Young-husband Young-husband and his staff were not far distant, dis-tant, and also wholly unarmed, and it is, evident that but for the personal' courage and presence of mind 6f Col. MacDonald and his officers a terrible disaster might have occurred. : The Tibetans displayed dogged fearlessness, fear-lessness, apparently being misled by the umallness of the British ' force, and ignorant of the effect of modern firearms. fire-arms. The whole affair occupied only .ten minutes, and even in the retreat the Tibetans disdained to scatter and run, and marched solemnly in line under a hall of fire. |