Himalayan Times (1950)

Itmaiapan Eintes

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Vol. Ill No. XX

KalimpofSg, January 1, *1950. Single copy -/1/6

IBBjET i\l4¥aOMAL ASSEMBLY MEETS

POWERS FOR CABINET MINISTERS.
AMBASSADORS FOR FQREIGN COUNTRIES.

. | ' ( Fi'jm o;ir oWn I 'urrespoiijent J

The Tibet National Assembly which i most pcwci-ful mon.asterioB. and the
is composed of icpresi ntatives frem the I officials of every rank, -both lay and

cleric, met recently
in Lhasa to consider
among other prob-
lems, the present
tlyeat of a possible
communist invasion
of Tibet Tlie Tibet
National Assembly re-
commended that the
poweis of fhe^lia-pes
v. |.n f. riin i he Kin-hag
or Cabinet should be
increased with a view
to meeting this threat.
Ac i r'liiigljj the fol-
lowing revisions were
made:

1 War Minister.
Sha-pe liugiishar.

2. foreign Minis-
tt r—l'.ampa Kah.n
Lima.

3. Supplies & Co-
ir, mimic;, tions-bha-pe
.Mirkhanr.

Continued on pay - 3

H- F YU1HOK L'ZASA (-ifcol.d from left) Tibet
Govt'* Amlias'mior designate to London, with nv inkers
of his family. His eldest sin (Second fiom right) has
be n eivaged to- tl.e second Mahaiaj Kntnari of-Sikkim.