MORE TROUBLE IN TIBET.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 883, 1 August 1910, Page 7

MORE TROUBLE IN TIBET.

GREAT MASSACRE'REPORTED. ANOTHER BRITISH EXPEDITION PROBABLE. TROOPS IN READINESS. By Tclcgraph-Press Association—Copyright. Calcutta, July 29. Beuter's agent at Simla states that the 'Indian Government iias warned two battalions and a mountain battery to bo iu readiness to advance into Tibet, in order to protect the British trading agency at Gyangtse, about 105 miles southrwest by west of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.

CHINESE AND TIBETANS. THOUSAND MEN MASSACRED. (Eec. July 31, 5.5 p.m.) Simla, July 30. Although the British troops are being held in they will not advance into Tibet unless an attack on Gyangtso_ is imminent. The troops have been instructed to remain strictly neutral should the Chinese troops have a collision with the Tibetans. The bitterness between the Chinese and the Tibetans is increasing. A thousand Chinese troops are reported to' have been. massacred at • Lhasa during the month of May.

Tho Chinese have failed to select a .successor to the Dalai Lama, who is at Darjeeling, in Bengal.

The Dalai Lama was deposed hy China as being of. dissolute and extravagant habits. The principal Chinese official in Tibet said ' recently:—"The Dalai Lama by leaving, his capital : and country has lost, his title and become, in our eyes, nothing but a common lama. This title is separate and independent. It was given by one Emperor of China, and it can be taken away by another." Tho trouble for China is that the pontiff v;ho has now sought refuge in India is the 13th "accepted one born without confusion or. doubt." And it is an awkward fact that no citable precedent has been, quoted for any reincarnation of. the "emanation" of Buddha until tho death of the Dalai Lama. Hence, no doubt, the trouble in finding a child in Tibet bearing the signs which sTiow that he is the reincarnation of Buddha.