The Archive · 1932

TIBETAN HOSPICE PLANNED

London, Nov. 23.

The monks of St. Bernard, who have been famous for centuries for their, "work. in rescuing travellers from the snow with the aid of their huge dogs in the Alps, decided at a congregation today to create a hospice for travellers in Tibet.

The Tibetan hospice will be constructed at a height of 12.000 feet in a mountain pass and will be open all the year round. Three monks will leave for Bibet next January irate the seheme—Reuter.

Kuomintang organisations in Nan-inten Dee. in commemoration of the Chaoho incident of 1918 when a group of Kuomintang leaders, in an attempt, to frustrate President SI monarchical con racy, effected a daring seizure of the gunboat, Chaoho, which was then lying in the Shanghai harbour. The coup d'etat, however, "failed with the arrival of other gunboats Supporting President Yuan, although he was later foreed to abandon the plot owing to opposition from other provinces.

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