Word: hsin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than all the others combined. All depend for most of their foreign and domestic news on the handouts of the Chinese Central News...
...birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing can be done without bribery. Last fortnight General Wu visited Tibet's three greatest monasteries, whose abbots supervise the selection of a Dalai Lama, and distributed "alms," tea and rancid yak butter (Tibetan delicacy as well as lamp fuel) to 17,000 Lamas...