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...Merrill ($2.00). Ommony-who knew as much about India as any white man could know-sought his sister and her husband in the Ahbor Valley, whence no man ever returned. He sought also the secret of the broken bit of green jade and of the wise old Ringding Gelong Lama, who had an Oxford degree and was found to be importing European little girls into the Ahbor Valley...
...these things were duly uncovered, with the help of the kindly wisdom of the Lama and his marvelous chela* so that Ommony found himself at the end with a mission on his shoulders-a mission as strange and solemn as any that man has shouldered. Others of his fellow-adventurers on the secret Middle Way were Dawa Tserin, intricately-wedded hillsman with the mind of a child and the saw-edge knife; Diana, epitome of canine sagacity; Maitraya, bumptious actor...
...seriousness that Stinnes has proposed to convert the Papacy into a company called "St. Peter's Successors, Limited" with which is to be amalgamated "the Russian Greek Orthodox Church and affiliated in the form of a religious syndicate with other religious organizations in- cluding the Tibetan Lama Church, and that he has plans for establishing a paper factory in the Vatican grounds and founding a moving picture city near Rome which shall completely eclipse Los Angeles...
With the consent of the Indian Government and of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, the expedition will probably leave Darjeeling late in March, follow the same route as in 1922, establish a base camp in April, start the final attack in May. Complete arrangements have been made for the simultaneous distribution of news despatches, pictures and articles on the trip through the London Times, and, in North America. The New York Times. Native runners will carry the communiques to the nearest telegraph head, whence they will be relayed to Simla and the outside world...
MARGARET SHEPARD SOCIETY will give a Chinese entertainment, an evening in Peking, under the direction of Miss Clara M. Cushman, (late of Peking, China), assisted by 26 persons in the costumes of various nations, representing Buddhist and Lama priests, soldiers, watchmen, bride, mourners, teachers and pupils, etc., at the Shepard Memorial Chapel, Mason street, Tuesday evening, February 12, at 7.45. Admission 25 cents...