CHAPTER X

GYANTSE--_continued_

Attack on the postal riders--Brilliant exploit of the Mounted Infantry--Communications threatened--Clearing the villages--A narrow shave--Arrival of reinforcements--The storming of Palla--House-fighting--Capture of the post--A fantastic display--Night attacks--Seven miles of front--Advance of the relief column--The Tibetans cornered--Naini monastery taken--Capture of Tsaden--Our losses--The armistice--Tibetans refuse to surrender the Jong--A bristling fortress--The attack at dawn--The breach--Gallantry of Lieutenant Grant and his Gurkhas--Capture of the Jong 170-194