COURT TRAGEDY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 9 August 1923, Page 5

COURT TRAGEDY

WIFE OF BUDDHA POISONED. BOLSHEVIKS IN MONGOLIA. J Press Asso iation+~Copyright. Aus tralian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.-10 a.m.). London, August 8. The Daily Mill's Pekin cot respondent says; Despatches from the capital of Mongolia announce that tlie wife.of the living Buddha, or Lutuku, who was proclaimed Emperor in L 912, lias been fatally poisoned by the Court attendants. It is stated that they were bribed by Bolshevik officers. The Bolsheviks, it is believe!, feared the female Buddha would exercise ,too much influence in the campaign against them, which began recently. For the past two years she played an important part in Mongolian politics, and cherished the dream of Mongolia being independent again. She conspired with the mad Baron von Sternberg in 1921, who forced the living Buddha to declare the Independence of Outer Mongolia, but was captured by the Bolsheviks and executed.

The Bolsheviks thereafter made themselves the suzerain over Mongolia, but the wife of the living Buddha weaned her husband from Soviet influence.

Recently, both were implicated in plots to oust the Bolsheviks from Mongolia. Subordinate plotters were imprisoned or executed.