Dalai Lama to Viceroy of India Simla, Aug. 10.
On the completion of the felegraph line to Lhasa the Dalai Lama yesterday sent an inaugural message to the Viceroy tendering his greetings to the King-Emperor and the Viceroy, cordially thanking the Governments of India for its assistance in connexion with ihe construction and expressing the fervent hope that the line would serve to cement and make permanent the bond already existing of friendship between the two countries and to increase the trade between them.
The Viceroy has sent a cordial reply.—Reuter's Special Service.
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