MAZE OF PLOTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 10

MAZE OF PLOTS

IN SACRED TIBET REDS AND CHINESE RIVALS LONDON. Feb. 26. Intrigues to obtain influence in the mvstei mm, land ol 'libel, tin* •'Gateway te India.' are Wing carried on respectively by agents of the Russian .Soviet and the- Chinese (tovermnent:. li is reported that the Tibetans are u/ohilising forces and i lint Chinesti tronps are moving on the Tibetan northern frontier. Relations between Tibet and the 111(ban State of Nepal are still strained, following the seizure in the Nepalese Agency in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, of a man alleged to he a Nepalese trader.

He was subsequently killed. Ihe good ofUees of the Government of India are being Used in an attempt t" settle the dispute amicably. The Dalai Lanin at Lhasa is Die supreme, rider of Tibet. Second in ollicial importance and a person of great influence was the I’ashi Lama, or Jiead of the Tashi-lhunpo monastery near Shigatse, who was expelled and tied to China, in 1928 after a political intrigue. Informal ion has been received from Shigatse and Lhasa that- the Tibetan Government, is calling up levies from the Dor district- in Eastern Tibet and making great preparations for u possible campaign. Chinese troops are reported to he moving towards the Tibetan frontier from tlie north. This may lie only a threat t,, induce the Tibetans to reinstate, the Tnslii Lama, who is now in Mukden, AlaiieJiurin.

Once in power in Tibet the Tashi Lama would be pro-Chinese and would aid China, to regain her former influence in Tibet.

Relations between Tibet arid Nepal are still strained.

Russian agents are reported to he trying to bring about u Russo-Tihetan rapprochement. The Soviet Government- lias secret agents at Lhasa ami Shigatse.