Show ACTION OF CHINESE NO SURPRISE IN LONDON LONDON Feb 24 The The flight from of the dalai lama will cause no surprise to close observers of the tho Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese nese attitude toward the tho pope when he was in Pekin It became eviN evident evident evi evi- evi N dent then the Chinese Chinese- government had hadDO no DO intention of permitting him to re re- sumo Furno his sway at so far as civil power was concerned and attempts were wade nade ade even to effectually bar his passa passage o I durin during his ret return rn homo home Following up its policy of II China ChIna I for tho the Chinese tho the Pekin government govern overn- overn ment meat determined to make malee effective its control over the tho lands of the lama A campaign n to this end has been pushed in in the border provinces for the last two years and now China has sent an army of of Buddhist anti troops into tho the capital of This army army which was dispatched I from Sze Chuen has been drilled by Japanese J officers and is completely equipped with mountain and machine guns ns of German and Japanese patterns and wireless apparatus In the earlier t sta stages es of the tho movement the Chinese met with severe reverses on the frontier where they were ambushed ambushed am am- bushed by the tribesmen On one occasion occasion occa occa- sion aba sion four hundred of their troops were killed and some of the guns were cap cap- It is reported that the Chinese policy is k to reduce the number of lamas in each monastery from five fie thousand to about one hundred inducing all but the few retained to marry and settle throughout the country The government is also trying to attract Chinese immigrants to take u up grants of land in |