DEPENDENCIES, Two curt telegrams bearing the same date, November 28, the one from London, the other from Peking, apprise us of a fact, which at " cursory glance appears to be tri ough, bat io which for those that hi beat there sounds the seventeenth division garrisoned st Lhasa has revolted and intends to leave Tibet, avd like a sinister echo comes the message from Darjeeling that the K'sn-pa of the three great sem of the Lamaist faith. and Débang, are urging the Dalai Lams to retarn, believing thet he alone can save the country from chaco.
It is m far cry from Peking to Lhasa, bat the word has gone forth that the Dragon Throne has fallen apon evil days, and it remains to be seen what effect the tidings will have on those vast tributary states which stretch unbroken from the line of the Wall westward to the onses of none of Chama te- [of "he It valley, of Kashgaris, to be the fate of Mongolie, el Tibet, of all those peoples of varying tongaes and creed, bat who i jowledging the Son the emblem of suzerainty What is to be the effect on the balan of power in Central Avia, and bow is loosening of the Imperial grip ing regarded by the Moslems of Kansa and Torkestao, who, it would exhibiting siges of that which seems to be permeating the followers of the Prophet all over ]tbe world tant pan Islamic movement These are a few of the pressing questions which must be pazzling the authorities in Peking at the present moment, and upon to them depends largely the fate of Chios herself as the predominant power on the Asiatic Continent. Should the tree constitutional party under th leadership of Yan Shih-ksi gain the day in the present straggle and succeed establishing a stable centralized Government, with the child Emperor aa the symbol of national ovhesion, theo ell may be well, and Chios with a strong revivified admit ion might exert a most beneficent i: flnence on
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