TIBET'S TROUBLES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 7

TIBET'S TROUBLES.

DEPOSITION OF DALAI LAMA EESENTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Calcutta, June 29. The Tibetans are resenting Chinese sovereignty. They object to the deposition of tie Dalai Lama, who is still at Darjeeling, Bengal.

A RUNAWAY GRANDEE,

The Dalai Lama fled from Lliasa on February 12 last and sought refuge in India. On February 25 the Chinese Government issued a decree of deposition, charging the .Buddhist pontiff with " unprecedented pride, extravagance, lieent> iousness, insubordination,«. aid unruliiiess."

It is undeniable (wrote a press com, pondent. in March Inst) tliat the Dalii Lama has for some years past been in triguing against what he considers to 1» the undue authority of the Chinese Im« perial Residents at Lhasa, and his attitude was no doubt distinctly restive on his journey to Peking in 3908, during his residence at the capital, and on his return to Lhasa. At the saino time, it is tii bn remembered that from tho Tibetan point of view the action of the Chinese Government, and particularly the proposal to convert the now dominion and Tibet into ordinary provinces, has not been calculated to reassure the head of the priesthood which, until recently, virtually ruled the country. Next to the Dalai Lama the most interesting personality in the foreground of events at Lhasa is tho Assistant Resident, a Cnnti.neic named Wen Ohing Yao, educated at Queen's College, Hong-Kong, for years sub-editor ot' a vernacular paper at Shnnghai, and Inter in charge of the Foreign Affairs Bureau at Canton.