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SIR CHARLES BELL'S TALES OF TIBET

Sirharles A. Beli, the British) political officer in Sikkim, has arrived! in London from the romantic city of Lhaes known in Tibet for so long sa "The Forbidden City. With him Was Colonel Kennedy. Far away from civilisation and other white men and women, these two lived for a whole year among strange folk as the guest of their King, who is also a god. Bir Charles Bell is one

the few living Englishmen who have mastered the Tibetan language, and this helped him to become a friend of the great and powerful Dalai Lama, the ruler of Tibet. Lhasa from the distang he said, "looks like a pro- vincial town. It is situated on the slope of a mountain. The houses are of stone with flat roofs. Although it is known as the forbidden city we found the people most hospitable. A house was placed at our disposal aud all sorts of entertainments arranged for us.

"There no furniture as we know it. The Tibetans sit and feed on the floor at tables with very short legs.

The climate was intensely cold when we arrived and for days the temprature in car roots never rose above freezing point. There were no glass windows. The people of Las use the place of glass a fort of wax cloth It is the wind in but they are ar y race and do not appear Bu feel the discomfort of the cold.

Mut.ou, yak beef, and pork ware the staple det. The Tibetans do not like other chickens or eggs. They do Dot slurp on beds but on the floor, on which are placed large and downy conducte You lie on top of these ane fell them over you. They are very comfortable and warn!

The Dai Lama received sue frequently at the palace." said Sir Charles. He is મ wonder- ful personality. Be is not only religious head ut secular bead of the people. He used to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and work until midnight. He paid me the great bonear of inviting me into the for bidden enclosure of his country palace. This was a little wonderland of flowers, birds, and wild animals a bidden retreat where he gave deep though both to Lis religious and state allaire. Hundreds of canaries were singing here, and there were also staga, pheasants, and a great tiget from Bengal.

"The Dalai Lama is a very wee

ruler and is very friendly toward England. He is also a man of very simple tastes.

I had to return the hospitality aad arranged to give a theatrical performance. This was timed to last three days and three different com. paties were engaged: Judge of my dismay when I was told by the man who was in charge of one of the com panies that the play he intended to produce was written for a five day performance. It was a sort of sex and religious drama

"I told tim that I could not Arrange for more than one day's show of his company, and after a time by agreed to cut four days out of it. Eventually the play was per- formed from 10a.m. until sons 1. All the plays were a combination of re figious sentiment and buffoonery, at which the audience rocked with Jaughter for hours.

"There are, practically sp aking, no police, no firemen, and no wberled traffic in Lhasa. The dental service, too, i rather crude. If a men sallers, from tootbache be goes with a few friends on to the flat roof his boase. His friends bring a big st me, round which they fastep a string. The string. is then tied to the bad inath and the stone dropped over the roof top. Two or three friends hold en to the patint to prevent him from going over too."

Berlip monuments Oro boing systematically planders by thieves, Fronze busts and small figures aro removed bodily from their pedestals, and, as already reported, some of the crowns have been stolen from the Avenue of Victory: The latent objoor of such depredations haa breo. the Bismarck memorini in the big

equará opposits the Reichstag. Daring the night robbers broke off from the figure of Siegfried, at the -foot of the statuo, a sword more than bm yard long, and surcouded in getting

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The Earl of Lytton's connection with India may be said to date from his birth, for he first saw the light at Government House, Simla, shortly after his father, the second baron and first earl, had entered upon his duties as Viceroy and Governor-General, From Eton he went to

Trinity College, Cambridge, where, as a mem- her of the Amateur Dramatic Club, he scored a distinct Buccess in "Money," one of the best known of his distinguished grandfather's plays. On leaving the University the Earl of Lytton went abroad to study modern languages and travelled for some years on the Continent For

sone considerable time his energies were devoted to what may be called practical social economy, He has been closely identified with the work of Trust Bouses (Ltd.), of which he is chairman, while another breach of activity which bas always attracted him is housing and town planning. and he is president of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust and of the Welwyn Garden City Ltd. He was a keen supporter of the cause of female sufirege, and bas done much useful work in connection with popular social clubs, more especially for boys, Bud in relation to the care and educa

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The three masted schooner "Ho- sanna," bound from Raumo, Finland, to Spain with a cargo of timber, was taken into Ramsgate Harbour. According to the story of Captain Neilson, the master, she had been wandering about the North Son for 35 days.

Captain Neilsen said that just after leaving port his vessel ran into terrible weather. Mountainous seas swept the abip, almost engulfing her at times. The crew had to cut away the sails and throw the deck cargo of timber overboard to enable the ship to right herself.

The seas were so beavy, says Captain Neilson, that they had to put on lifebelts, and as his craft develop ed a serious lask they had to man the pumps and work them all day and night. Their food and water ran out. The men became exhausted, and for saveral days the vessel drifted about aimlessly, Passing one

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him one of those Englishmon renlly competent to sprak with authority on the questions affecting the Indian Empire. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he E a contemporary of the Earl of Lytton, be, soon after leaving the University set out on his wanderings, In 1898 he went to Ceylon, and spent the next five years in India, (where for a time he was A.D.C. on the staff of the Viceroy, the Marquis Curzon), Persia, Asiatic Turkey, Central Asia, and Siberis. In 1906 and 1907 he was in Japan, Chins, and WHY DO BRIGHT BOYS GROW Burma. He made two long journeys tion of State-aided children, both Sea of Japa.., becoming familiar with right across form the Caspian to the poor and delinquent. He has ren- the methods of Rassis's stealthy

"Why is it that children are often dered very valuable service to Inter-

march eastward. He took full sa bright and interesting and the national Trade Exhibitions as chair- min of the Royal Commission for the afforded him of studying on the spot

advantage of the opportunities grown-ups so dull and nuinteresting?" The Master of Balliol (Mr. A. L. Brussels. Rome, and Turin Exhibithe problems which confronted the m'th), presiding at the annual meet- tions, 1910-11.

Governments of the countries heling of the Science Masters' Association, Lord Lytton's fficial training and visited and their relation to and held at the Imperial College of Science experience began in 1901, when be influence on the attitude of Western and Technology, South Kensington, was appointed assistant private secret

Powers to the peoples of Asia. The W., quoted this witty saying by a ary to the late Mr. George Wyndham, observations Lord Ronaldsbay made Frenchman, and added: "What has then Chief Secretary for Irland. In and the conclusions BL which happened in the interval? The answer 1916 he became Civil Lord of the he arrived are set out in the books is Education." (Laughter.) Admiralty in the first Coalition Gov- Le subsequently published: "Sport ernment, and in the following year he and Politica under an Eastern Sky," acted as Government epkesman for On the Outskirts of Empire in the Navy in the House of Lords, with the office of Additional Parliamentary the Far East," and Au Eastern went off and hit them in the eye. Secretary to the Admiralty. A period Miscellany." In 1907 he was return (Laughter.) Science could be and of work as British Commissioner ford to the House of Commons as ought to be part of the homen Propaganda in France followed and Unionist member for the Hornsey education. History ought to be taught in 1919 be returned to the Admiralty Division of Middlesex, and proved a properly.

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