At the police station he talked in an excited and high-pitched voice, refusing to disclose merely carrying out orders. The prisoner was promptly put through the third degree and afte wards. revealed the names of accomplices. The other Korean involved, Shin Shei-yi by name, is Tt was also discovered during the unearthing of the details of the plot, according to the police version, that the perpetrators of the attempt to bomb the Imperial Palace had received considerable pecuniary assistance from the Russian Reds, In November last year, a conference of Far Eastern peoples was held at Moscow, and Kin Shi-she made him-elf prominent at the meeting by advocating violence in any and form, on the ground that more iteratore und verbal propaganda were too slow, in themselves, to wake up Far Eastern races Planned a Rising in; Indig.
An interesting fact about Koji Hideshima, one of the Japanese involved in the present conspiracy, ix that, while residing in Shanghai Jduring the war, he conceived the ambitious plan of going to India, putting himself at the head of a band of revolutionally-inclined Indiana and stirring up trouble—according to the Japan police. The money for the venture was to be obtained by smuggling opium from India into China. The whole thing became n sorry fasco and the day dreams of leading turbanned revolutionaries against the loyal troops of the Indian Government faded most prosaically when some of Hideshima's friends, engaged in the preliminary opium-smuggling ture, were arrested and put behind iron bars. Hideshima escaped The litting of the police ban on publication ofthe details of blot—which followed lose on the heels of the attempt made to a ate the Prince Regent ess than "Shas for the moment even crowd ten days separating the two events
fad the immigration issue out of the fast prominent portion of the ttewspapere, "colunina on colunins being devoted to this pol.
"The policeman who put up the first fight against Kin Shi-she and eho was Injured "by the bomb Thrown at him has been rewarded with a money gift. Kin and his accomplices will be tried by. the Supreme Court on charges of high treason and attempted murder Pexinc, May 6.—At the Cal meeting to-day, Mr. Fu Tung was nominated Chancellor of the Norta-_ Western University, which is being] established at Lanchowfu—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Ons of the gifts sent to Marshal Wa Pei-fu on his birthday is reported to be 10,000 cigarettes. On each is printed a El proverb of four characters, flood," indicating' the strength of the leader. Other gifts are mentioned to include a large jar of yellow wine reputed to be 100 years old, a musical instrument of the Chow Dynasty, a painting by Mei Long-fang and endless curios.
Tibet, known to Marco Polo as! the desert of Lop, and said to be haunted by evil spirits and goblins, was first visited by an Englishman, in 1774, when Mr. Bogle was sent ona mission to Tahsilumpo. No practical result was achieved by this mission or the one despatched i 1783, which returned to Calcutta after an absence of 15 months.
The premature death of Mr. Bogle was a great loss for it frustrated the design he hail formed of presenting the public with a narrative of his interesting journey. 'A record of this journey, however, was found in a letter from Mr.
Stewart, one of the mission, which, although it gives some particulars of the country through which the mission passed, is overshadowed by the accounts ' left by the mission under Major Turner. Before proceeding with an account of this mission, a short account the Bhutias with whom the is well worth recording.
"When the British force, under the administration of Mr. Hastings, carried their arms northward to the mountain boundary of Hindustan, they came unexpected upon an enemy. bearing no resemblance to cope on the plains. These any they had been accustomed to
warriors were clothed in furs, and armed with bows and arrows; the appearance was uncouth, their saults furious, and when their, spoils consisting of arms, clothes, utensils and the images of their gods, were brought to Calcutta, these objects. were found to be decidedly Tartar. This was the people of Botan, who, it seems, were on their part still more a tonished when, instead of the timid and naked Hindoos flying before them at the first assault, they saw troops uniformly clothed and ne-courted, moving in regular order, and pouring forth such deadly vollies of musketry and artillery." soon judged that these serious persons to deal Lama, "the spiritual of this mountainous gion, judged it wise to send a mission to Calcutta to mediate a peace between the British Government and the Deab Raja, the immediate governor of Botan."
Commerce with Bhut It appears, that the presents of gold, gold-dust, musk, Tibetan woollens) and Chinese silk, which gave a formidable idea "of the wealth of Bhutan, induced Mr. Hastings to concede to their demands; especially as he saw that the commercial intercourse with these new people' would be advanttageous in the highest degree.
Shortly after Mr. Bogle left Tashilumpo, the Tashi Lama set out in 1779, ona visit to China at the invitation of Kien Lung (1736- 1795). After three months he reached the monastery of Kumbum, where he passed the winter and was worshipped by large crowds. Hi chief occupation seems to have: been of daily making several thousand impressions of his hand on. paper, which were well paid for as relics. One chief alone is said to have presented him with 300 horses, 70 mules, 100 camels, 1,000 pieces of brocade "and 150,600 shillings in silver. After a journey of two} months escorted by princes, governors, officials and soldiers, and the chief Court Lama of the Chinese]
Emperor, he reached Kien Lung's summer residence, and was received with the pomp befitting his position, Here he was put to some inconvenience, for even the Court favourites insisted on seeing him. He sat dumb and motionless behind a transparent curtain, casting down his eyes so as not to be pollute by the sight of beautiful women. All "this came to a deplorable end. 'The Tashi Lama fell ill and died, and it was affirmed that the power: ful Emperor had caused him to be poisoned, because he suspected him of a design to free self from the] ed. supremacy of Chini with the help' of Warren Hastings, The disappointing news of the death of the Tashi Lama was followed not long after by news that, the Lama had reappeared on earth in the form of an infant of about a. year id; who having displayed all the characteristic marks of identity, was accepted by the nation as their spiritual head ahd sovereign.
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