BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 9

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

SPECTATOR SUMMARY. LONDON, 3rd September. THE TIBETAN MISSION. The latest accounts from Lhassa are thin to a degree. The Government of Simla is nearly as reticent as that of Tokio, and must, one would imagine, have in&isted that the correspondents, and even officers, with the expedition, should write instead of telegraphing their narratives from the nearest station. It is, however, stated distinctly that while tho Dalai Lama has fled into Mongolia, perhaps to Urga, with the idea off seeking aid from the "Living Buddha," who resides there, the Lamas left behind have become reasonable, and the Government of India hopes that a treaty will be signed and that the Mission will be able to retire sooner than was expected. The people are said to be friendly ; but the ruling Lamas are evidently a little doubtful of that, for in a proclamation, a translation of which has reached the Daily Telegraph, and which must be more or less genuine, because no European could have forged it, they admit fchat the war has "gone badly," and that they are, with Chinese consent, making a treaty. The people, monks and laymen alike, are therefore cautioned to behave properly, for if not, "we are on the watch day and night, and if we find you speaking ill we will kill or "fine you as you deserve." It is announced that according to present plane the expedition will leave Lhassa on 15th September, but it is noteworthy that no hint of the terms of the treaty, beyond a vague reference to an indemnity, has been suffered to ooze oufc.