The Archive · 1933

Foreknowledge of Death

The Tibetan representatives fu ther asserted that almost all Dal Lamas, including the last om, had foreknowledge of their death, The [day battle in which 600 Commun- offic {ats are alleged to have been killed. stated, received about Reuter. structing the purchase of cer*ain A Government Success ides required only after his Nanchang, Rec. 23. thus indicating that the late pontiff, like his predecessors, had a Another signal victory has been premonition of death. scored by the Government troops ju the bandit-suppression campaign The remains of the by the capture of Chungan, still lying in state at the Potala, strategic city situated 33. miles his magnificent and mysterious south-west of Pucheng, in _north-palace in Lhassa, and his burial will western Fukien, near the Fukien-fuct take place until next year. Kiangsi border. The recapture There is no indication regarding Chungan and Kwangtse gives the possible return to Tibet of the Government" troops stratonic a Panchen Lama, who has been an vantage over the Fukien insurgent [This ie tory also has thwarted. the exile from his native land since attempt of the combined forces of presence to recite passages from i924. Some Chinese hold that his the Fukien rebels and the Reds to the Buddhist Scripture is. required invade south-western Chekiang.—at the accession ceremony of the Kuo Min. but, even if Air Bombing Started Dee, present-day Tibetans want the Panchen back merely for the sake of conforming with religious jeustom, The Panchen Lama is ex-dropped 24 bombs on the Peo-e's Government offices, the Head-

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