Chiang Pushes Plan to Incorporate Tibet; Child, 6, Is Appointed as Dalai Lama
By THE UNITED PRESS
hanghai -- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is hastening his measures to
consolidate Chinese control of Tibet, according to advices from Chungking today, and expects
during this year to make that formerly semi-independent State an integral part of Nationalist China.
The generalissimo was described by persons who have seen him recently as confident that his "free
China" can be expanded and made into a self-sustaining economic area that can function alone,
without relations of any sort with the Eastern provinces, which now are controlled by Japan and
which will comprise the domain of the new "National Government of China," to be proclaimed
soon in Nanking by former Premier Wang Ching-wei.
The informants said that General Chiang was resigned to the proclamation of the Japanese-
sponsored Wang Ching-wei regime and was confident that the bulk of his followers would reject
new peace overtures that Mr. Wang is expected to make soon after the new Nanking Government is
established.
In line with his determination to maintain his rule in West China the generalissimo has given orders
that no effort be spared to preserve China's good relations with Britain, France and Russia--as
Chungking must depend on these countries for exterior communications.
He was said to have given Britain assurances that his intensification of Chinese penetration of Tibet
will not mean any discrimination against British interests in that region, which commands the
northern approaches to India.
Wireless to The New York Times
Chungking, China, Wednesday, Jan. 31--The Executive Yuan decided yesterday upon formal
appointment of the 6-year-old child recently discovered at Chinghai, China, and taken to Lhasa,
Tibet, as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The appointment was made in accordance with a petition of
the Mongolian Tibetan Affairs Commission, which advised the Yuan that word received from
Lhasa showed that the Buddhist hierarchy of mid-Asia was convinced the Chinghai child possessed
spiritual qualities indicating the lad was the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama.
The petition pointed out that ranking lamas of Lhasa felt certain the discovery could result in divine
revelation. In the appointment the child's name is given as La-Mu-Ten-Chu. Apparently the
appointment rules out other claimants to the throne of the Tibetan pontiff and obviates the necessity
of a drawing to determine a successor of the thirteenth Dalai Lama.
