Faithful disciples of the late Dalat Lama were guided in their search for his successor in a strange man-net. "During their pilgrimage of search they visited a place about 100 miles away, from Lhassa, the capital of Tibet, There they had a vision in which it was disclosed to them that the new Dalai Lama would found in the midst of a mixed ra of people who dressed in. stron apparel. These mystic signs. led them to the vicinity of Tar Temple in Kokonor.
On their way to the temple, the Aisciples were said to have been met Boatmen's Heroism Revealed Chungking, uly 20, 'A. story of the heroism and of the role played by Chinese boatmen in the two years of the Sino-Japane: war is told for the first time in an afeial communique issued here to-
Trained by the army for war ser~ vie during the hostilities around Shanghai, the communique states, several hundred Chinese boatmen fare today maintaining inland river communications in Mupeh, Hunan and Szechuen provinces with their junks and launches Out of an armada of 300 junks, which joined the Chinese army the beginning of the war, it adds, 200 have already been sunk by the Japanese. Thirty boatmen were killed during the hostilities at Shanghai, while the figure went up to 130 by the time the Chinese evacuated Han-
Through the efforts of these boatmen, the communique continues, many inland rivers have been kept open for the transportation of arms and ammunition to the front and of wounded to the rear.
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