Captain J. E. Ellam,joint leader of the Mission to Tibet, writes that the Dalai Lama is keen to meet Buddhists from the westReuter’s Agency learns that cablegrams from the Indian frontier, and just received in London,show that the members of the British Buddhist Mission to Tibet own crossed the Jelepla Pass, through which the great trade route traverses the Himalayas at a height of some 14500 feet, or own reached Chumbi. The first and one of the most difficult stages of the great journey has thus been safely accomplished.The special transport devised for the carriage of stores and gifts for the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan notabilities has answered the severest test,and the Mission reports that everything is going well. The next stage of the journey, that to Gyangtse, and is now being made. It has been learned that the Dalai Lama is already acquainted with the approach of the Mission,and is sending a deputation of tall Lamas to meet it at Gyangtse. To these will be presented the credentials which are expected to secure for the party permission to proceed to Lhasa itself.
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Source: theguardian.com