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...stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival of the Masks gurgling merrily as a monk inducts his predecessor's soul into his flesh; the symbolism of the growing "storm" sweeping the Whites before it like tumbleweeds...
...gutters of the Himalayas ran news. Sometime ago- goodness knew when-and for some reason or other-goodness knew what-an army of 60,000 sturdy soldiers marched from Nepal and were last week ominously approaching Lhasa, famed "Forbidden City," capital of that remote pope the Grand Dalai Lama of Tibet...
Possibly the trouble is that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
Good Little God. In Mukden, capital of the great northern Province of Manchuria, Governor-General Chang Hsueh-Liang had sufficient respite from war last week to entertain in sumptuous fashion that good little god, the Panchen Lama or "Living Buddha," devoutly venerated by millions of Chinese Buddhists...
...convenience sake the Panchen Lama might be called the "Buddhist Pope," and the Dalai Lama the temporal pontiff of Tibet. Just at present these two most holy persons are at outs, the Sovereign Dalai Lama holding his court at Lhasa, Tibetan capital, and the Panchen Lama roving about war-torn China with the immunity and pomp of a walking deity. In honor of this little man on whom rests the duty of maintaining Buddhist doctrines pure, an invigorating banquet was tendered by Governor-General Chang at which hot tiger's blood was drunk...