DIFFERENCES, has stant friction between thorities and the Tibetans. The Viceroy, Chen, does not seem to exercise any real power, which apparently lies in the hands of Lien and Wen, the senior and junior Ambans resident at Lhases Six mandarins administer the civil power, bat ignore the wishes of the Tibetan pablic and of the committee or council who are supposed to assist them. The posit became 80 intolerable that representatives of this general committee arrived in Calcutta and sent long telegram on December 8 to the Waiwapa praying the Emperor of Chins to interfere in the interests of the sacred Budabist religion, The telegram accuses the Ambans of the desecration and destraction of mon-asterias, and states that macy Lamnx have been killed by the non-Baddhist soldiery, and that the people in many districts are subjected to cruel oppress sion. It farther declares that the proposal of the committee, that the Britich guards which have been withdrawn from the newly opened trade matta should be replaced by Tibetan police trained under
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