10th February.
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In Liang's opinion the foreign-mo-Fangs provinces inspected by him.
'A dispatch received by the local mandarins from the North reports that the ex-Dalai Lama of Tibet is at Urga, Mongolia, snd suspected by the Peking Government of seeking to escape into an alien country. Word has been sent accordingly to the Deputy Military Governor of Urga to place the Pontiff under the closest and to send him under without delay to Haining, in <ansu province, where ho will be taken caro of by the Assistant Imperial Resident of Tibet in the city, and where also is " large force of Uhinese troops under a Major-General. It is thought that guarded by these officials the ex-Dali Lama will find it difficult to leave Chinese territory.
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