CHINA AND TIBET.
QUARREL FOR SUPREMACY. BLOODSHED AT LHASSA. Pwss Asnocjation-Bv Telegraph-Copyright Received 9.55 p.m., Feb. 28th. PEKIN, Feb. 28. The Dalai Lama and Chinese Amban who commanded the troops, quarrelled for supremacy. Both claimed Pekin's authority. The Amban declared that Tibet had been proclaimed a Chinese province. There was some bloodshed at Lhassa prior to the Dalai Lama's flight. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. SYDNEY, Feb. 28. The Shanghai correspondent of the local Chinese paper attributes the Tibetan trouble to the Dalai Lama ignoring all Government authority. It is believed that the Dalai Lama entered into a secret agreement with Russia and other nations without consulting the Chinese Government. The latter some time ago devised a " greater China" scheme in connection with Mongolia and Tibet. One of the reforms proposed was the conversion of these territories into Chinese provinces and this reform, it is said, tie Dalai Lama strongly opposed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14143, 1 March 1910, Page 5
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