TIBETIAN PIONEER TO RELATE EXPERIENCES

Dr. William Montgomery McGovern, distinguished British orientalist and explorer will lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the address will be "To Lhasa in Disguise", and will be illustrated with pictures taken with great difficulty by the explorer on his epoch-making expedition to Tibet's capitol in 1923.

Dr. McGovern studied at the University of Oxford, and through his brilliant work attained the distinguished Oxonian doctor's degree.

One of the most versatile of living English scientists, Dr. McGovern is not only famous for important Amazonian explorations, but is still more renowned as the first white man to penetrate into Lhasa, the "Forbidden City" of Tibet. As a lecturer he stood in the front ranks in the Oxford Union, and has addressed the leading British societies.

Numerous scientific works on many different subjects have been published by this savent. Among them are: "Modern Japan, Its Political, Military, and Industrial Organization," "Colloquial Japanese"; "Manual of Buddhist Philosophy"; and "To Lhasa in Disguise." The story of the South American expedition will be published in the near future.

Tibetian Monks Were Constant Danger

The successful Lhasa expedition of 1923 attracted attention all over the world. After crossing snow-blocked passes higher than the topmost summits of the Alps continually in danger from the fanatical Tibetian monks, who put to death all strangers. McGovern, disguised as a Tibetian coolie, succeeded in reaching the capitol. Thus Dr. McGovern, a young man still under 30, surmounted the obstacles in this most hazardous undertaking, in which many of his distinguished professors had failed.

In the course of his South American expedition two years ago, Dr. McGovern encountered and was attacked by many savage tribes, but with the assistance of his remarkable genius for languages, finally gained their confidence and was admitted to their most secret rites.