TIBET THE MYSTERIOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1926, Page 7

TIBET THE MYSTERIOUS.

NO ADMITTANCE. PENALTY FOR MODERNISM. LONDON, March 4. The "Daily Mail" says a grim secret of Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet, was revealed to the Indian agents of the Crompton Company, engineers. of Chelmsford, by Tibetan runners. The company recently dispatched 300 tons of electrical machinery for erection in the "forbidden city" in charge of a young Tibetan peer named Ringang. A condition of the contract was that no Enrarlishman should enter Lhasa. The machinery was reported to have arrived safely at a point 400 miles from the rail-head at Kalimpong. After that there was a long silence. The Indian agents of the company now report that bandits, who are allesred to have been representatives of the new Tibetan Government, met Ringang with a mule caravan in a mountain pass. The bandits assassinated the members of the party and threw the whole of the machinery over a precipice. Ringang was a relative of the Dalai Lama. He was educated in England, where he studied engineering. As a Isquel to this news the British expedition to Mount Everest has abandoned its project to attempt to scale the mountain next autumn. — ("Sun.")