GRIM SECRET OF LHASA REVEALED

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3287, 5 March 1926, Page 7

GRIM SECRET OF LHASA REVEALED

Electric Machinery for Forbidden City THROWN OVER PRECIPICE AND ESCORT MURDERED [By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Thursday, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. The "Dally Mall” says a grim secret of Lhasa vVas revealed to the Indian agents of Crompton and Company, engineers of Chelmsford, by Tibetan runners. Cromptons recently dispatched three hundred tons of electrical machinery for erection in the Forbidden City, In charge of a young Tibetan peer, named Bingang, a condition of the contract being that no Englishman should enter Lhasa. The machinery was safely reported four hundred miles from the rail head of Kalimpong. after which there wa3| a long silence. i The agents now report that bandits, allegedly representatives of the| new Tibetan Government, met Ring-, ang with a mule caravan in a mountain pass, assassinated the party and threw the whole of the machinery: over a precipice/ Ringang was a relative of the Dalai Lama, and was educated in England, where he studied engineering. The sequel to the news is that the British Everest expedition has aban-! doned its projected attempt in the autumn.