New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1924, Page 12

ELECTRICITY FOR Lhasa, Seen by Few Whites, | Will Make Forward Jump ‘Washington, D. C. “Lhasa, capital of Tibet, the l'or bldden Clty which n all its exist- ence has been visited handful of white men, about to make tleth century met ing a hyd bulletin f Oct e y only a | ‘FORBIDDEN CITY ' su¢ ings 1t is difficult to understand how the present form nr1 Buddhism (Lamalsm), as prac- ticed in Tibet, could ever have sunk | to the depths of degradation it )mal rea “ the interior of the Potala | is curious as it s of | . a cortain « halls and flights of steps. | Among the larger hall were | several striking ones, especlally that It tomb of Nag- -tsho; the daane | extended upward cral stories, On the s a great deal of ation and the whole » of work On consists dark pu which was Lob-san the principal tgmb of smaller di- Dalai Lamas Gold Im “In limen o walls Al Butter Lamps m of fairly large were lined | with s s from floor to cciling, mountain lar glowing tints wonderful sunsets s bet, or by moc outlines softened and toned down, | the Potala stands out like a phan- tom castle in ghostly splendor from among the shadows of its rounding trees, all aspects equally lovely. City Dominated by Poiala “Tha Potala is by far the finest building and ec the beauty of its appearance. The present Potala was commenced in 1645 by the Grand Lama Nag- wang Lob-sang-gya-tsho, on the same site as a former building; and there is no doubt, I think, that the pity is an ancient one and was in existence more than 1,200 years ago, although we can find pe re- | pords giving any authentic historl- fal account. “The Potala dominates every- {hing in Lhasa. The enormous mass of buildings, partly monastery, | partly palace, and partly fortres: h. built on a rocky ridge which stands out in the center of the valley, com- manding the town and dominating the landscape. Its architecture is magnificently grand, bold in outline and design; it towers above every- thing, with its gray white walls and buttresses, its immense flights of steps and terraces dotted with red-robed monks ascending and de- scending from religious cere- monies; its dull madder-red temple walls, with carved and painted windows, showing behind black brown yak's hair hangings, sur- mounted by its gilded roofs and set in almost parklike surroundings of trees and meadows, with BNOW- capped mountains on all sides and ‘the Kyl-chhu, the River of De- i others in | sely packed to its ut- with must images of been ROl - and many have s — workmin- chapel there den butter lamps. t would be q impossible to e of g plan ation of buildings, ks, perhaps cvery part of the ire, capable holding thousands of people flat roofs of the Po- valley lies mapped town to the east, sub- houses interspers were | 1} , two-storied, stantially with temples e Jo-Khang, the most holy shrine in Tibet; the Chagpori, or school of medifine; | the Turquoise Bridge (Yutok | Sampa), 8o called on account of ifs | green-blue til roof; the many channels of {he River of Delight | (the Kyi-chhu), beyond which lies the Arsenal, and to the north the | Monastery of Sera under the hills, containing 5,000 monks, Further on | the Debung Monastery with 10,700 | inmates; the gilded roofs of the | Na-Chung-chos-kyong; and vhq‘ Ling-Kor, the Sacred Road, along | which all devout Buddhists pros- | trate themselves in the hope that | @Il their earthly sins may he for- | given, could be seen in places. “There are monks everywhere in | or near Lhasa. The three large | monasteries of Sera, Debung and Gah-dan alone contaln about 20,- | 000 and with all the other temples | and monagteries the number can- not fall far short of 30,000, while | the lay population of Lhasa only | amounts to about 15,000 of whim 9,000 are women, who, strange to | say, earry on practically the whole of the trade dome. The remaining | 6,000 males are about 000 betans and 3,000 foreigners — C nese, Nepalese, Kashmeris, etc.” BERLIN ADOPTING RADIO Berlin, Oct. $1. — Reduction of | the fee for installing radlo-receiv- light, running clear in many chan- | ing sets from 60 gold marks to two nels through groves of willow er swpoplar. Interior Less Striking “It is indeed a fitting shrine for the heart of any religion, and with has resulted in an increase in the number of sets from 9,100 on April 1 to more than 200,000 on Septem- ber 1. This growth is recorded in the Berlin district alone, 57 Smart Styles! All Leathers! All Sizes! \ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1924, ONGE EXE[IUTI]NER, ARGENTINA HAS PRIDE NOW PEDDLES RUGS Notorious Character in Russia Repents of Deeds, Turns Meek Tiflis, Russia, Oct. « == One ofl the most remarkable and notorious | characters in Russia s a Russian- German pamed Nicholus Shuman, who Is called “the Commissar of { cath” by the natives of Georgia. wives this sinister title from » fiet that for a long time he \s the official executfoner of the ded Ch in southern Russia. His vietims ran-into the thousands. Shuman is now remorseful for all heads he has cleaved, and has ed from human butchering to selling in the bazaars of Tiflis. may be scen any day hawking his wares to American or other for- cign visitors to the Georgian capital. He is easily identified by the na- tives by the fact that his harsh, de- termined face s marked by a deep scar, the result of a violent attack made upon him with a huge_fron spike by an aggrieved Gedvgian whose frlends Shuman had put to death. “I killed these people,” sald Shu- man to the correspondent, “because it was my duty as official execu- tioner for the government to do so. I could nmever have done it fn my personal capacity. I am repentant and want to forget the past. 1 want to develop my better side. Do you think there is any chance for me in America as a rug merchant? I hear you have mlich money there. 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