18 MARCH 1955, Page 5

TIBET IN DURESS T HE Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama

left Peking on Sunday for Tibet. Both, are under twenty years of age; not much is known about the Panchen Lama, but the Dalai Lama is a serious, idealistic and intelligent youth. He will, it has been announced, preside over a committee which is to prepare Tibet for 'regional autonomy.' This vague phrase probably indicates Peking's intention to impose on the country whose conquest they completed four years ago a relationship to China roughly similar to that which has long been established between Russia