Lhasa is Visited very seldom by foreigners, but Bolsheviks have 8 to penetrate there too, fon the coast of Caspian Sea, there live a nomadic tribe of Kalmucks, numbering about 1,000.- 000. They are, all Buddhists or Jamas and their language is very At the time Bolshevik advance _on Kalmucks played the part of instructors. A number of princes and priests, in June 1927, were sent to Lhasa with a proposal to enter into a "union" with the U.S.S.R, and to offer them instructors and arms. Among the members of this mission there were representatives of the Gentral Committee of the Communist Party, because Kalmucks are: now organized into an autonomous: republic under, direction of Russian, Communists. "This mission has not yet returned, and there are rumours that they have preferred' to remain in Lhasa, Beside doing propaganda work, the Bolsheviks improve means of communication, For example the roads between Kabul, Meerut and USSR. are so organized, that there exist many stations where one can
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