POSSIBLE DRIVE INTO TIBET

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26055, 7 March 1950, Page 5

POSSIBLE DRIVE INTO TIBET

CHINESE COMMUNISTS IN SINKIANG (Rec,.ll p.m.) . NEW DELHl,'March 6 .Mohammed Amin Bugra. a former Vice-Governor of the Sinkiang Province of China, which lies on the northern frontier of Tibet, said to-day that nine divisions of Chinese Communist troops were stationed in the province. Mohammed Amin Bugra, who fled to New Delhi as a refugee, said that Russian officers and officials were fairly numerous in a number of the main centres of Sinkiang. The Russians largely controlled the economy of the province. The Communists’ plan to extend their activities to Tibet had been speeded up since the Chinese Communist leader (Mr Mao Tse-tung) had returned from Moscow. Other New Delhi reports say that a Communist - dominated “Tibetan People’s Provisional Government” has been established in the Tibetan border areas, and that the Chinese Communists have formed a Tibetan “liberation army.”

Ward .Price, a correspondent of the London Daily Mail,” who is on a mission to Tibet J said at Yatung that he nad met the Dalai Lama’s special envoy, Shagpa, who was leaving Tibet to communicate with the Chinese Communist leaders. Shagpa had instructions to discover the Chinese Communists’ real intentions towards Tibet.

Shagpa told Price that the Tibetan leaders did not believe that a Chinese Communist offensive against Tibet was imminent.

BRITISH WOMAN SPY FREED FROM GAOL

LONDON. March 5. The only British woman sentenced to death for spying during the Second World War was released from prison a few days ago. She said that the episode was “a huge joke.” Mrs Dorothy Pamela O’Grady, aged 52. served nine years of her 14-yaar sentence. She claimed that she had confessed to spying only because of exhibitionism. She said: “Being sentenced to death was the greatest thrill of my life.” She almost went to the gallows, but “Persuaded. against my will, I appealed, and the sentence was commuted to imprisonment.”