29 APRIL 1905, Page 18

Telegrams from Szechuan confirm a rumour, which was at first

disbelieved, that the Chinese Resident in Tibet has been murdered with all his suite. The news has been treated as serious, but its importance depends upon facts to which there is at present no clue. Has the Resident, who seems to have met his fate on the Chinese border, been killed by orders from Pekin, or by Tibetan insurgents, or by friends of the dismissed Dalai Lama P The last is by far the most probable explanation, but there is as yet no particle of evidence for one theory more than another. The Viceroy of