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THE TASHI LAMA IN

· PEKINGÍ

DIGNIFIED AND GENTLE PERSONALITY.

INTERVIEWED IN" KWANG HSE'S DEATH CHAMBER."

PREPARING THE WAY IN KIUKIANGS

SIEGE OF THE CONCESSION.

TENSION BEFORE THE OUTBREAK.

STRIKE OF ALL WOMEN

SUGGESTED:

PLAN TO MAKE MORE MARRIAGES POSSIBLE.

A permanent strike of all women pmployees in offices, ahops, and fac tories in order that men's earnings.

The following letter, which ap might be increased and that more. All China's hopes in Tibet repears in a recent number of the man might marry, was suggested by Dr. James Fenton, Kensington's volve round the person of the Tahr NGG. Daily News, was written on Lams, one of the two Grand Lamas January 3rd at Kinkiang and is medical officer of health, at the

Institute of Hygiene" of Lamaistic Buddhism, who is now of special interest, as showing the

The rivalry of women, with

an exile in Peking, and the Bollos thoroughness with which the ground their husbands and fathers' in tho!

ing account of an interview which the Peking correspondent of the Observer had with him is interest ing

was prepared for what followed.

Both the anti-British and anti- and tenser now. Speeches were de Christian feeling are growing tenser livered here and there in the main streets by the Students Union to the populace and an immense quan stir up anti-Christian feelings of

thy of inflammatory literature was distributed on Christmas Day.

labour field is suicidal," he said.

undersell him, the wife and mother father being reduced by woman, who The wages of the husband and

must give her working day to make up the difference,

Te is difficult, the correspondent says, to reconcile the Tashi with either a political purpose of a ven- detta. A man of shtogether bene volent appearance, he spends four hours a day in solitary prayer, and the remainder of the time in read- ing the classics and in receiving the faithful, who lay all the riches of Central Asia at his feet. Mongolia and foreign women have come down number of the young women who

Concession In Blats Of Sisga. Upon the notification of the British Consul, Bere, all the British

Dr. Fenton said that if his sug men's employment and earnings gestion for a strike was carried out would be so much improved that the number able to afford marriage would be considerably increased. barely able to live on the man's Many young couples previously salary would be able to afford domestic assistance. A considerable went on strike would be absorbed in occupations just as congenial.

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is particularly worshipful, for their from Kuling and are living in the own Living Buddha at Urga ia sub concesion, while some have gone ordinate to the Taahi, who is re downstream. The entrances of the garded as ultimate sovereign. «

concession are being guarded by Jalani Palace Of Forbidden City, armed British marines inside to

His Holiness is averse from re-

prevent any unlawful occurrence ceiving Westerners. That he saw soldiers outside, with some police and by the armed nationalist me at all was perhaps due to a per-standing between them. There are sistence that spread over half a pickets always patrolling near the rear reinforced by several call at

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The Tashi greeted me in Kwang Hau's death chamber. But first. I had to undergo a lesson" inot quette, which took place in the tive Expedition and the inaugura vast courtyard of the" palace dur-tion of the formal government of ing morning Maus From the room the Nationalist Party, mass all around me carne low monoton-meeting was held on January 1st, gus chants, rising and falling like 1927, after the usual custom of a wind through the trees, and then reading of Dr. Sun's will, deliver- fading altogether into deep reii ing, hot speeches, chitributing of gious quiet. Three hundred unseen leaflets, shouting off slogans, etc., monks, the entourage of the Pon- and the meeting ended with the Tronoh Mines taff, were on their knees, counting general parade. In the evening Ural Caspians/nom their beads behind those bank about 100 different bodies of people HK & K Wharis "attended the lantern procession HK & W. Docks

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A Bizange Interview.

The dividend for the financial year 1925-28 has been fixed at 12 per vent while the reserves have been

And so began a strange inter- view. A sprightly youth the inter- preter had seemed in the courtyard, full of reminiscences of his life in increased to rs. 18,295,000. Darjeeling But this was the holy af holies to him; he remained bent and awed, peering across at me for my questions, which he retalled to his divinity with downcast head. The potentrate responded over the half-prostrate intermediary, speak. ing in soft caressing tones.""

current and depout accounts have increased during the period con corned from Fra, 200,000,000 to Fra, 560,000,000.

Highest Respect For King George.

In truth, he seemed to regard me There were to be no political than as a journalist. He inquired more as the King'a representative confidences. His Holiness had no first about His Majesty's health, other mission than to speak the and embarrassed me mightily by his Lamaistie word to the faithful Ho Hoyal Family. He said he enter questions about the doings of the would, perhaps, go on to Urga, tited the highest respect for the there to comfort his Mongolian King, whom he had met in India. He spoke of the cordial relations flock Pilgrims were pressing hon that had subsisted between the day to show himself on the Mon Tanhi and Great Britain ever since golian

steppes to those nomad Warren Hastings established rela people, who have sacrificed their many smiles that these relations tions with Saigaire," He hoped with eminence and even their vigour on would long continue, accompanying the altar of Lamiam. Perhaps he this pleasantry by a return pre- would soon return to Shigatse, sentation of another cart, which His answers revealed no definite sudience end of t

ceremony marked the end the purpose, and evaded all questions about conditions in Tibet.

(Continued on next Column).

- As I turned my head in closing the door I saw the Grand Lama resume his etatnesque pose and the telling of his beads of gold,

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