…In late 1910 the Pome people killed a senior Chinese official. The Chinese replied with a punitive expedition which provoked open rebellion. In early 1911 Chung Ying, who had been in command of the flying column which entered Lhasa in February 1910, was sent to Pome with some 300 men in the hope that he could pacify the district. He met with scant success, and was soon recalled and replaced by Lo Ch´ing-ch´i, the Amban Lien Yü´s private secretary, who had recently returned from an abortive mission to Darjeeling to persuade the Dalai Lama to come home to Tibet. Lo Ch´ing-ch´i had with him perhaps 1000 of the best troops in the Lhasa garrison, and he was soon reinforced by a contingent of Chao Erh-feng´s men of the Marches, and by most of the garrison in Zayul. This force achieved some initial successes, but it was quite unable to subdue the Pome tribesmen, who took to guerrilla campaigning in the hills. The Chinese supply and medical services were not up to the strain imposed upon them. Lo Ch´ing-ch´i´s army diminished rapidly in size and its morale deteriorated drastically. When Amban Lien Yü recalled the survivors2 back to Lhasa in late 1911 they were already on the verge of mutiny. As soon as they learned of the Revolution, which had just broken out in China they refused any longer to obey their officers and they put their commander to death. The Chinese were in control of Pome and Zayul for a very short time. By late 1911 the Pome venture had ended in disaster…(Lamb, Alastair. The McMahon Line. A Study in the Relations Between India, China and Tibet, 1904 to 1914. Volume II: Hardinge, McMahon and the Simla Conference. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. : 277).
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Introduction 41 Origins of the sPo ba Monarchy 42 The Emergence and Consolidation of the Institution of the Ka gnam sde pa 44 The Search for the Promised Land, and the Splendour of the sPo ba Dynasty 46 The Beginnings of the Kingdom’s Decline 49 The Political and Social Situation in sPo bo at the Beginning of the 20th Century 51 Political and Cultural Expansion Southward 53 Invasions and the End of Independence 56 Conclusion 60
