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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934.

THE COUNTRY WHERE PRIESTS RULE

2001.

DALAI LAMA'S DEATH

SETS PROBLEM

TIBET - LAND OF MYSTERY

(By Basil Murray.)

A God has died. The Dalaifold man, with a long beard, who

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by women. Wo-

important in. most of the

very

The proceeds of these 5,000 birth-Lama, the only theocratic ruler in remembered aceing the French ex

the world, was translated to plorers Hue and Gabbet disguised day balls are to go to the Children's

Nirvana last month. He reigned in Lhasaveryone saw through Foundation at Warm Springs:

This establishment was set up in Tibet. He was sixty years old. their disguise, although the country by the President in gratitude for He had been a Sovereign for sixty was supposed to be closed to for-

cura from, infantile Fears as well as a god.

eigners-in 1846. The Tibetans believe in rein- Str Francis has told me it was e carnation. When their ruler dies nice town. There are lots of shops, they seek for a child who was born run' ' largely Why Duce?

at the moment he breathed his laat men arg The origin of Mussolini's title of breath. That child is the "Duce" has long remained my ruler of the country. He has the important people, including the

now Tibet, though sterious, even to his friends.

It means chief, leader-the early himself the living Buddha. Until Monsk and gode, who between them soul of the dead king. He becomes Dalai Lama himself, are celibato, significance of the English word

he is of age to rule by himself, a constitute a large portion of the |"duke.”

Dictator's regency is administered by the ab-population of Tibet, are not allow adoption of the medieval title is bots of the three great monasteries ed to marry, and consequently the of Lhass: Ganden, Sera and population is decreasing. Nor are Drepung.

they like the medieval Popes. Those abbots are ruling, that Worldliness' is anathema to them,

It is a They never think about women.

the The Dalai Lama

came back ID Both before and after bls

The reason for the

Aow revealed by an exhibit in the Exposition of the Fascist Revolu- tion open in Rome.

The exhibit is the manuscript of large country to-day.

Italian strange country-very high, Ja letter written from the

trenches in 1917, a few days before average elevation of the whole ter- 1911. his death, by Mussolini's friend ritory is 16,000 feet-higher than exile he lived at a palace called the and war comrade, Corridont. In Mont Blanc. The top of Mount Pota-la in the centre of the town, this letter the soldier eulogised his Everest is within its frontiers. It which Sir Francis said was rather companion as nostro Duce spirituale. is a bleak, unfruitful land, yet it like the monasteries on. Mount * has a considerable trade. It ex Athos or in the Apennines. Ro ports chiefly wool, clipped from cently he bought a piece of land yaks and goats: It imports tea and and built a villa 'outside Lhasa, to an occasional motorcar. The world which he could retire when politics still recognises it as a dependency became too troublesome. He led of China, but since the Chinese secluded life; played no games, and

Your Daily Smile.

Just One More Version. stantial in the way of government Then there was the little Aber- to take its place, made the con-deen boy who hung up his stock-revolution in 1912 it has really been was only accessible to his subjects tipuance of that ceremony dilll- cult if not impossible, and the ing at Christmas, and his mother

put a darn in it.. Hong Kong Friday, Jan. 26, 1934. extent to which Tibet is now actually subject to Chinese au- thority is problematical, Mean- The Changing East.

while British fingers have come

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completely independent, and in the at public festivals. last three years it has been fight- Offered Troops To Britain ing with the Chinese Government

He had a liking for animals, kept of Szechuan in the mountain passca Tibetan mastiffs in his grounds and The vicar had a certain truculent on its eastern frontier; where the a tiger in a cage

Tact

tional issues, it draws attention obstruction. ̈ ̈ ̈ But Great Britain moments; then, looking at the the son of peasant parents from, àlight in the Palace, and two years

Jemerging from the backwash of would negotiate, with Tibet ex-/"Smith, kindly remove that pers?" the least known quarter of Tibet. He

After the serviče the vicar con-

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Hot be regarded as a very impublic works, or other Tibetan af "Well, sir," said the verger; "Tremote country' and thus acquire. He refuséd his consent (the gods

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into the pic. In 1903 an Indian woman parishioner noted for her monks of St. Bernard have lately inadequate strength. of somewhat. Though the death of the Dalai military expedition forced a fondness for a drop of gin. One set up hospice to tend storm- Later he warmed' towards the ||Lama of Tibet may not be an trade convention on Tibet, as the day she went to church hiccuping bound travellers.

British and offered 1000 fighting The late Dalai Lama was a capa-men to the King at the beginning event at the moment calculated result of which China was forced with painful distinctness,

The parson bors it for a few ble and Intellgent man. He was of the war. He also put electric to involve any important interna-to phy an indemnity for previous

exclaimed, publicly, village to the north-east of Lhasa, ago he acquired a small car, calend to the fact that Central Asia is and Russia agreed that neither verger, 'he

Although he frequently refused. cept through China. That treaty from the building."

was fair, with a long drooping permission to Everest expeditions, history at a rate that may lead was made in 1907, since when

Smith rose reluctantly to obey moustache like the Chinese man-he to far-reaching developments be both the Chinese and the Russian The congregation held its bredarin in a pantomime. He honest-balancing his wish to be friendly always did, wo courteously. fore many years have passed. Empires have disappeared, and expecting a scene, but to their re- ly believed in his own divinity. against the danger of offending the Up to the beginning of the pre- with Russia, at any rate, all in-lier the woman rose and left with

As a young man he fell under angry góis of Everest. Fyn M sent century Tibet was a land of ternational obligations have gone out' a' murmur.

Russfan ́· Infihences X Russian

When this year's-expedition mystery. And, as is usually the by the board. To complicate case with mystery lands, imagina-matters further, no Tibetan ter gratulated his man on the tactful accret service agent caled Doyleff beaten back by the monsoon, was

established a Rasputin-like bold political agent went to tion made up in colour for what ritory can be acquired by any way he had removed the culprit.

over him. It became probable that Dalai Lama If they could try agici ili ask the "How did you manage it?” be was lacking concerning it in foreign power without Britain's

Russia would seek to annex this in two years. asked. knowledge. Of itself Tibet can-consent, nor can" any "Failways,

of Everest have been particularly falts come under foreign control Just went to her and whispered, new gateway to India, a

Then in 1904 Sir Francis Young-angry in 1933), bat hinted that la portant country. It is abut up except on the same condition, Come on, ma; come out and have

husband was sent to Lhasa by the a few years time they might be in the remote fastness of Central When the effect of all these treasono wi' me””

Government of India. He had to allowed into the country again. Asia, where the light of modern ties is considered, to find the

... SOME AND SOME fight to reach the forbidden city." His death may Alter the situation, civilisation can as yet scarcely be actual authority now dominant in Bald to have dawned: That Tibet seems more like a ChineseThere are two sorts of girl, the He has told me that the Tibetans Feta-la was barely but beautiful brakes all the more interesting puzzle than an exercise in politi-sort your kiss under the mistletoe fought well, particularly in defenre ly furnished. It had large, fre the speculation as to what will cal geography. The one thing and the sort you wouldn't kiss un-of their walled villages. They are rooms hung with Chinese embrois a cheerful, althletic people with a dery: the chairs were square, up- be the effect of the impending plain is that the position involves der chloroform. transit of this country from the all the elements of a complicated

et love of acting. The peasants right, and wooden, The living. form troupes which tour the country rooms were built round a court darkness of antiquity to the full diplomatic problem for which in the Soup

othing of gallant, with miracle plays, like those which yard. Dinner, there consisted of Great Britain may at any time: Jones' was nothing if not" glare of the twentieth century. be called upon to and the answer, but he alwaye said the wrong thing were popular in Western Europe barley soup, rice; fruit, vegetables, Though primitive people, the The Whole East is beginning to Mr. Brown, who was exactly the

500, years ago. But Younghusband and occasionally yaks meat. There Tibetans are by no means sav-move in a way that puts half the same age as her husband, but reached Lhasa, and the Dalai Lama was up drink except ton of which kes; nor are they inferior to the population of the world into would not admit it, was entertain-fled to Mongolia: best the Tibetans drink up to forty cupe in ruman intelligence. state of international unrest. log some friends, Jones Once Younghusband reached and melted butter. Tibetan beer is Average

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day thickened with yaka's" milles All that differentiates them from And, in that movement, extend-them. other faces of normal standard is ing as it does from the Yellow My husband", fo” fifty," she was thefe capital the Tibetana' wire drunk, only by the peasants "the that their ways are not the Seam the east to the Red Sea saying, "You wouldn't believe it. Kriendly. He was quartered is the nobles sometimes distil price World's ways as the world exists on the west. British Interests are but "there's 'Actually ten years dif- house of the pretiler duke of Tibit spirit, but it is not ganernily papi- bo-day But the isolation they inextricably involved. Bussian ference in our ages." *TE wa large hönseHe had lát,

„he viņu - si-kitzt! have hitherto maintained is no intrigue, which is known to be "Impossible!""'interpödés" "Jones, staf?" kid a bodyguard of 200 men. All the houses are built of stone. longer possible. The legend of active in India, 'could not now be anxious" to say something agree-There was accommbdation for all The finest bondings are the 'mohiq- "the unchanging East" has pass-expected to stick at throwing able. “I'm sure 'you look quite as of thèm no sa mun e ad eð (dis Pteries, which are often five storeys ed. The wireless telegraph, the over the pre-Soviet ment yours as he aber and paroThe Regent Whom the Dahigh and house-over a thousand motor car," and the aeroplane, for non-interférence

Lam had left to conduct affairs monks. As in medieval Europe, After the Great Whoopes Party, during his absence was a Professor the church'io Tiber for the "quickest

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of Metaphysics at one of the Lhasa bath to political power, [mokülőtérfch. "He war's charting § (Continued on 'Pogd:10);

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have put a limit to the existence And with the peculiar entang of the hermit, nation, and affairs ment of International right in the in Tibet, as elsewhere, must government of that come into the light that now Tibet can be 'skid to have any makes the life of the whole world distinct form of government, the a more or less open book. And, situation is one of unusual de insignificant as Tibet may remain licacy. Regarding succession to as a separate, power, it is capable the shadowy, sovereignée of the of developing an internationally Dalai Lama, there is no trouble the Siamese government will '65- strategic Importance quite out of perhaps to be apprehended. The tablish regular" and emergency proportion to any notice that its new Dalal Lams being supposed-landing fields, wireless and metoo- own strength or wealth might ly the bid one reincarnated, his rological statíðriä!? 4 Zingssly D. 90 warrant. Asia is undergoing an identification must be determinedurer ve some an de la omas organic change, and portions of by mons beyond the comprehen A San Francisco Inventor's life the continent hitherto practically sion of an unimaginative West, proserver endidees * parain, toʻtka unknown have parts to play in a But though his londence on the neck in a kuit of rubber buoyant drama that is unfolding with be- liver of the Tibetans may mean enough to keep him silóat în even wildering rapidity. The exact more than Westerners Wot of k rodgh water) Bokhoj, mái (el posit m in which the Government factor in diplomatic affairs. It was a po of Tibet now stands would be is not likely to count for much To Increase the consumption" of dificult to determine When The Powers have a way of ignior- domestic ülephol Chila Sas2reqòlf- there was a Chinese. Empire, it jing Dalai Lamas when a questioned that it must be added to all paid tribute to the Manchu Gov- concerning thell own interests in gakoline used in the country except ernment. Every year an am- the country troost up cu Anial in Atrofinskimi pahap pu61% |bassador' from Lhassa went to therein lies the danger associited | ELEMEN Feking and presented the tribute with the emerging of a countertop forgatomostieriibid In the form of a piece of cloth under this kind of government seats has boni tüvérted taki lA NED pendant from his left forearm from the mystery of a practical- ported by a pair of lasy tongs, and The disappearance of the Chinese ly unknown past into the inter-when not in use can be rolled like Emp

without anything sub-national arena as it exists today, a window shade,

Evening Standard

Old Low's

Prophecies For 1934.