THE MARCH FROM LHASSA.
HARDSHIPS OF THE TROOPS. SNOW-BLIND AND FEOST-BITTEN. [PP.ESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 24th October. A hundred and foity members of the military escort which accompanied the British mission to Lhasfca were caught in a blizzard at Romba Pass. They spent an awful night. When Phari was reached, sixty-nine men were snow-blind and twenty-live frost-bitten. The guide lost the way, and Captain Cowie steered the force by the aid of a compass.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 25 October 1904, Page 5
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73THE MARCH FROM LHASSA. Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 25 October 1904, Page 5
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