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JNN O V /VITON S RE SEN TED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association., LONDON, Alarch 3. The Daily Alail says: A grim secret of Lhasa was revealed to the Indian agents of’ Crompton and Company, engineers, of Chelmsford, by 'libetan runners. Crompton’s recently dispatched three hundred 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 Englishman should enter Lhasa. lhe machinery was safely reported 400 miles from the rail head at Kalimpong, after which there was a long silence. The agents now report that bandits, allegedly representatives ol the new Tibetan Government, met Ringang with a mule caravan in a mountain pass, assassinated his party, and threw the whole of the machinery over a precipice. Ringang was a relative of ths Dala Lama, and was educated in England, where he studied engineering. . . As a sequel to’the news, the British Everest expedition, has abandoned its project to attempt an ascent in the autumn.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1926, Page 5
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