The death is reported from Chefoo of Mrs. Herbert Hudson Taylor, wife of the veteran China Inland Mission missionary.
The late Mrs, Taylor came to China (as Miss Gray) in 1864, in a party of nine ladies, only two of whom survive, Her husband 1s the son of the late Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, and she and her husband had retired from active work for several years their Inst three years being spent Chefoo, 'A lady of singular grace and sinority, her loss will be severely felt by Ree "numerous friends all over ina. of the new Dalai Lama; in fact they deny all knowledge of any such event. These men have just come down from Derge, 20 days west of 'Tachienlu, and Derge is in close touch with Chamdo. which has probably wireless communication "with, the capital. "Any news about the Dalai would spread like wild fire all over the Roof of the world' and Chamdo would have it a few days after Lhaso—Derge a few days after Chamdo and Kham a few days after: Derge. Yet there is not a word one way or the other regarding an event for which the Land of the Lamas is walling with such intense anticipation.
'The last Dalai, Tubden, was number thirteen, and there is a remote Prophecy, probably not very widely accepted.' that the thirteen in would be the last. There is a small lamasery to the south east of Drebung where the great oracle Nehchung, an Incarnation who forecasts the birth of each successive Dalai Lama, 'The Dalai died in December 1933. three years ago, and so far the great oracle has made no prognostication. regarding' the coming Dalai. And why? Have the three antagonist parties in Lb xn anything to do with, the delay?
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