TROUBLE IN TIBET
CALCUTTA, March I.' The Dalai Lama will be the guest of the Indian Government. He is expected' to reach Calcutta on Friday. The Ghinese captured all his baggasre" ' March 2. A laTge procession of Buddhists, with banner-bearers .and incense-bu'rners, also many tourists, met the Dalai Lama at. Darjeeling, the Brahmins reverencing him as the incarnation of Buddha® The Dalai Lama is a man of slight figure and thin face, though pitted with smallpox, and he has a kindly smile. March 5. The Buddhists at Darjeeling have petitioned China to recall the Chinese Resi-. dent at Lhassa. to withdraw the troops, to restore the ruined monasteries, and to reinstate the Dalai Lama China., in reply to Russia, has intimated that the deposition of the Dalai Lama -would not affect the Brahmin religion or the internal administration of Tibet. LONDON, March 3. The Earl of Minto, in the course of a telegram", states that the Dalai Lama fled' against the advice of his council and of the National Assembly.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 19
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