OUTER MONGOLIA

Evening Star, Issue 18649, 2 June 1924, Page 1

OUTER MONGOLIA

—» I,IVI'NTv BUDDHA’S DEATH JIK PORTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copjrtglrt PERILTI, May 30. Li-Chiao, Chinese representative at -Moscow, lias telegraphed to liis Government reporting the death of Tinlnkuln. Recent reports reaching Peking; from Urga staled that (.he living Buddha was ill. —A. and rf.Z, Cable. Shortly after (lie outbreak n{ the Chinese Revolution in 1912 Outer <Mongolia_ declared its independence, and proclaimed the “.Living Buddha’’ as Emperor. Its autonomy was recognised by tlm Russian Imperial Government, and the following rear, after prolonged negoliutimiF, an agreeimmi was ;rare.si in Peking between Russia and China whereby Russia recognised Outer Mnimnlia as part oi Chmem (ernlorv undoi' Chi note see, ereignty, and China, recognised the autonomy oi Outer Aioseeuie. Ip id ilie outbreak of the war Russian influence turned to spread nipidlv in .Mongolia. Jn 1913 a lean to the Morieoiiaii (dovernment was granted l-y Russia, am! iu September, 1911, an agreenu- i! -,.:i ■■ se.'ceii nelwern Jtussia and the Urga (lovcrmiient - with regard to railwevr, hut. on November 2ft, 1919, China declared null and void the Russo-Chim'se and Rim e-Mongol agreements, and cancelled tito independence of Mongotia, Crga, which is the. holy city of the Mongols, is about 70Q miles north-west of Peking and 165 miles south of the Rus-sian-iSibcriau frontier town of Kiakhta. There , are three distinct quarters-gibe Kuren, or monastery, the residence of the “ Living Buddha ” : tlm Mongol city proper, in which live some 13,000 monks; and tho Chinese, town, the great trading quarter, two or throe miles from the, Mongol quarter. When, in 1904, on tho occasion of the British Expedition to Tibet, the Dalai Lama, withdrew from Lhassa, he went to Urga, where he remained until 1903. Darin., ’ his- resident:-,? ihere - the Dalai Lama would have no communication with the Urga Lama.