Peking, September 18.
On learning about the refusal of the Dalasi Lama to visit Peking, the Panshen Lama. acting in the place of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, has asked, by telegraph; to be granted an audience. Thereupon the Dalai Lama suddenly notified the Peking authorities that he will leave Taiynanfa for Peking within week's time. The Peking Government has reserved the reply to the Panshea Dama's request until after the Dalai Lama's visit.
September 14, The Peiho has broken its embank-great The number of the ments in the vicinity of Peking, causing
dead is said to be forty or tity. The inhale kaoliang crop'of the surrounding country is threatened. Viceroy Yang Shih-hsiang has despatched 300 soldiers' to the flooded. conntry: in order to repair the destroyed dykes,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.