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SD13J1l!C ':r : LI!>TCJOLN, Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch.

Reference: (a) 13ND Confident:i.al Carel, iT2721 of 3 Jan., J.940.

1. r.I'he following repo:r.t on subject :pe~son has been c;J.eaned

from reliable sources.

2. 'rhere ha'Ve been few i:nterna:tional crises in the past thirty

years in wM.ch the subject J?erson has not apJ?eared. in an important role.

His na:me and activj_ties are o:r. sucll a nature that; he is listed in the files

of eye1•y state d.e:pal'tinent in lGurope. He has helcJ. such prominent l)Osi tions

as ·t.o warrant his name ·being listed in the 1'W.ho 's Who" in the Bri ttsh.

Em.:pire. He has held. high positions in the churches of f'ive di:ti'erent de­

nominations and has owned oil wells and. oil :t.'ields in Humania.

3. His appearance :tn any country a.broad :ts a sicsnal for immedi-

ate activity on ·~he part of t,he go"Vernrn.ent j_uvestigatj.ng agencies. The

British go"Vernment has such a healthy regard for his abUity that they keep

him under semi-su:rveillance at all timer:3,

4. He appears under an alias in the mos-t unusual ;places

under 'lihe most unusual circumstances.

5. At ·t.he ·nre,sent time he is malcinP; an effort ·, come to the K ~ ~

United sto:tes to confer w:Lth P1°esident Roosevelt at a ~oposed irrternational

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6. 'l1he subjec·b was born 1611-{:fbius 'J.1riblich at Pal~s, Hungary, on

AJ;J1'il 4, 1879, the son of' Nathan 'I':r.ibich and J"ulia. ]'rlend, Hungarian Jews.

He was educated privately at Pressburg, Budapest, Brecklum in G·ermany, and

Montreal, Canada. His f:lrst, education was as a prospective Rabbi. He 1::1-lso

:r.eceivecl further education in Holy Orders in l~ngland.

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17. In 1900 he had serious dj_fferences of opinj_on wj_ tll his :paren-ts and le:r-t home fol' Dreklum, Schleswig-Holstein where he entered the Seminary and became converted to the Ckcistian religion.

8. About tha-t; time he married Miss lVLagaretb.e Jfa1or of' Harnburg and in the yea.rs to follow she bore him five sons.

9. Being a restless ind.i v:tdual, he vrent to Canada for the }'resby-terian O.hurch and became a missionary. When his mission was transferred to the 1'\nglican Church, he v.rent with it and became a minister for the Church of :rnngland in Montreal. He soon t:LJ?ed of this pos:Ltion and vrnn-t. back to Germany from which place he maa.e applica.tj_on to "i:ih0 Bishop of Ca11'terbury- for an English curacy and was eventually a:pJ1oin·t.ed Curate of' A:pplec1ore in ICent. In this capaci·ty he served. f'or 11;1, months befo:re :resigning and migratiw3 to London. In London, he made his livinc; at journal:tsm for u period of two y·ears.

10. 'Jihis brines Mm Ull to the Jear 1906 ·when lrn ,secur·ed an appoint,-ment as Secretary to for. B. Seebob1n Rovmtroe, the well-li::n.ovm. cocoa :manufacturer. He con-t;inued :ln this J1osHion assisting Lb:.', Hovmtree in the :production o:e Land and Labor Lessons :t'~r:'om J3elc;iUJr1 untn 1909.

11. I:n. 1908 he became naturalized, graclually working his way· :I.JJ. with a polit,icul group of tlrn Union Party at Darlington and in the general electj_on of 1910 was succes,sfully elected as a Member of J?arJ.iamerrl;. Com- ) mercj_::J.lizine on ·the prestige of' his new :position in London, he a.massed con­siderable profits from the :pron1otion of various oil companies which he co.n­trolJ_ed tmd operated in Rumania.

12. 'I1r•ebitsch lost his rarJ.fa.::10ntary ::;eat in 1914 and. af·ter the outbreak of the wa.r was reported. to be i11. f:lnancia). difficulties.

13. He ne:xt a.111Jlj_ed f'or and was gra11ted a pos:Ltion as cem;or of Eunga:cian and Rurnanian correspondence. His withdrawal from this servj.ce was the result of one of the tvm secret meetin(~;s lleld by J2arliaxi1ent du.ring the Wo:t'ld Wa:r.'.

14.. Beine under surveillc.mce, it was learned that Trebitsch was vis:LUng the German Oonsu1 General at Rot·tercla:m and on his return ·to England, su:t'Ucient evidence had been obtained ·to we.rrant the Admiralty advising the;!; he leave the country. r11his is believed to have been in the latter pe1.rt of 1915, as he went to Hew York where hEl 1•emctined f.'01.' a Ile:dod of' six months when he was arrested and brou6b:i; back to ).~ngland to answer a charge of forgery,

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'11rebit,sch w,,.s trj,ed and convicted at Old Bailey and sentenced to fb.:r·ee years

:iJ:rr-prisonme:nt. Ab the ex:piration of his sentence :tn 1919, he was deported to

Hungary.

15. About this time, Hune;ary was going throuch the tln•oes of an

u:prising and 'l'rebi.tsch assj.sted Bela Kun tn setting ur) a Bolshevist govern­

ment which was swept away in March of' 1920.

16. In 1921, he again a.1):peared taking a v-ery prominent part j,n

t;he Ka:p1) :put sch in Germany.

1'7. Shortly after this incident, he appreciat,ed that his field

of activity was becoming rather Umi ted so he came to the U. s .. , crossed t,he

continent and sailed from Vancouver i'or Shanghai. In ·bhis latter city, he

succeeded in selling himself' to several influential Chinese who pulled certain

s·brine;s and made H J.)Ossible fo:r· him to become adviser to Yang Sen a·b Ichang.

Ho con.vincecl the Chinese leaders wit,h wl1om he had become closely associateo.,

that through h:ls won(leri'ul connections in :rnurope he could secure f'or ·them much

needed assistance.

18. In Octobe1· of 1923, •:rrebi tsch con.du.c·tea. a Chinese Delegation,

headed by General Wu Hung Chung, to Switzerl~md, with t\ view to securing mili~·

ta1:·y- experts and i'unrls fo:c the :orosecution o:f' the civil wax· in China which broke

ou·b the foJ.lovrine; y·ea1'. The conun:i.ssion met with no success in Sw:i.tzerland. ,,,,,,

Trebitsch had plenty 6f fr:i.ends in Germ.My so the whole delegation went there ~,::•~'l and again came out unsucc ess:rul; but, in Ge1·i.111:!.lly, afte:r. being em1)loyed aE1 an "',.,,,,",,,,, .. ,.

agent f'or both the J!'rench and Czech governments, he picked up his wife.,,s:1;11d:-"jifbh .

·cvro o:e his sons returned. to Shanghai. /oi\ \~;:,,,i,,""''"''.,,. 1:} ·,,>" .•,

19. rr1110 next ·that was heard from him .,s :B'ebruary 11, 1924,

when his passpol~t, an. Aus·t;rian one in ·the name of' ~:rautwei!li was visaed for

Austria via B:d.tish ports, and he is b01i.eved to have sailed for the coun:try

alone on 1!10bruary 24, 1924.

20. 111rebi tsch was next heard of in June 1924 when he was once

again traveling i:n :[!;uro:pe with a Chinese Oomnission, the ostensible purpose

of wh:i.ch li'Jas to enJ.iF3t sym~pathy abroad for the CJ::d.nese Nat:l.ona11s·t Pt'l.r·by.

Jl'resh negot,ia•cions in both Italy· a;nd ;:;iwi tz,erland came to an unsuccessful end,

so in July of 1924, he ti.gain returned t,o ShanghaL

21. He next became assooiated vrl th the Chinese Wat• l.,orc1, Wu Pei

]'u, but, inasmuch as the War Lo:r·d's cha:n.ces of cuccess did no·t e.p1>ear promising~,'-~

']::cebi tsoh left him und proceec1ed. to new Yorl:: where he arrj_ved. in Augus·t of 1921

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22. r11he :year S:J?fol't'E in New York was not a :pro:t'itable one so he

returned to China and :l~-)J0•if'ember 1925, left t1hanghai for Ceylon, traveling

under ·the name o:t' 100 rrendlex:, On arrival in Manila, he was successful in

getting a British vj.,sa on an old 1,1assport an.cl continued his journey to Ceylon.

23. Near Colo1nl10 is a Buddhist Monastery which he entered with

the intention, so he saya, of remai11j_ng in it indefinitely. r.rhe news ·that

his son had murdered a brewe:i:." s clerk in :EGng1imc1 and was being tried for

murder caused. him to leave the lionastery early in 1926 .,u1d make a voyage to

:murope :Ln a fruitless endeavo1' to see his son whose execuUon was shorUy to

take place. Una.bl e to enter lC11gland, he stayed at Ham.burg for about four

week:s befo:r•e .. betJ1g expelled by the a1..ithor:i.ties. ) ', 'i;r)~· .'·"'

"' · • · From J:fomburg, he went to N'(;l,I)les whence he sailed for New

Yo3'.".;t,"·bn .. August 26, 1926, traveling on a forged passport una.01, ·the name of

./ H. Ruh. From ltew York, he went to San li'rancisco, joinec1 a Buddhist Oe1rter

v tli·e:re· as a lecturer and teacher of' Budclhism. He soon t;ired of this job so 1'1(t1,w,

1 on ;3e:p·tember 20, J.927, he arrived in Hongkong from Vancouver by the Jlilill)ress

l:<,k, of Canada, A few day·s later, he w1:~s on his way to 1J:ientsin on board. the

,(),,,. SS C01:3111T.l\'fZ. He crone to the notictLof the OM.nese authorities_ who accused

'" .. ,,.,J,2,:i.m of being a Soviet spy so he went :Lnt.o hidin(:; until March of 1928 when he

~"\ r·e'a::P42ear0cl a.t Honc;kong,. ar:dviri.g from 1:~ientsj.11 by· steamer, under ·the nexa0 of'

\ Jack 1:!'isher. A. deportation or·der was made out by ·the Eri t.ish at1.tho1~1ties at

'1i'on'gR"o:i:'1Q;on'" .. \pri119, J.92E~, a;nd on A;pril 30, he arrived back in Shanghai by

the BS ],l.iU.WA. '.ff'r10111 th:Ls point, all ·trace of' him was lost. I·t v:ras believed.

he hacl p1°oceea.ea. ·t;o Hanchow and obtainec1 refuge in a J3uddhist Tem:ple. >J o · ·it \/,l"' ;;,

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·t;JJ.ere he went to Dairen, ]:Ianctni:r:i::a:, the same 111on·th. On June 12, 1929, he was

back ac;aj.n in Shane:;hai ,t,ll.H't'vi'ent t,o live at the Ho11andisch Restaurarrl;, No. 50

Avenue Duba.il. OrJ,.C,er .. inore he was a new man descril)ing himself as a teacher

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June 25, 1929, he sailed. from Shanghai to Hamburg on the SS TRIER. rriowara.

the end o:(' t,he ,sui1mer, he was heard of in Holland. At i<lnsterdam, he had to

submit to cross-examination by the J)Ol:i.ce who decided tha·t he could not re­

main i:n Holland and so, 011 May 7 1930, he re-turned "to Shanghai on the SS

SAARBRGCJ:CEN and sto.yed on board the shiI.J before leaving for rriieri:tsin a few

days .la:ter, just long enough to get sufficient funds and on July 1, he cai.ne

back to Shanghai bJ' ·the F3~{ SfCT.frT'J.1:1:!:IN. A weelc later, he was on his way aboard

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28, Chao Kung, as he was called, declared that since 1925, he had devoted most o:f' his time to Duddh:Lst studies and was ordain.ea. as a monk

in the J3uddhis·b Monastery a:b ::E?achuashan, near !>Ed.ping, in May, 1931.

29. On .August 1, 1932, Chao Kung left Sha.ghai i'ol' Ao.twerp on the SS 'l1RLlJNON with the avowed object of founding a Bud.dhis·b :Monastery in the Occident. W'.o.en he boarded the steamer, he declared he would never re­turn ·bo the }1:ast. Chao Kung a.rri ved in Brussels from Germany ea:t·ly in October 1932, using a Chinese 1)assport under that nsro.e. He was expelled

by the Belgimn authoJ~i ties and :prom:ptlJr escorted to the frontier of Germany

where he was aga.:ln picked up and th1•ovvn in jail for an old debt. Chao Kung returned to Shanghai on June 25, 1933. Hav-ing failed to establish a Duddhi,st

IvI01u.3.ste11 y in Jl;urope, he announced his intention of establishing one :ln China.

30. 1I1hi11 teen of his foreic.u disciples, recruitea. by him in

:Europe, arrived in Shangha.1. a.board ·the SS TRI'.eGN on J'uly 2!5, 1933. r11hey were met on their arrival by Chao Kung who conveyed ·them to his home, lmovm a,s the Buddhist House, at 131 (treat Western Roa.a.. On July 31, of' the same

;;rear, the SS J!'ORMOSA. brought to Shanghai three more foreigners who had come

for the riuxJiose o:r studying Buddhist doc·trin.es under the guidance of' Che.o

Kung.

31. In thE) latter part of' 19;33, Chao Kung was the guest of

honor at various functions given by the cUfferen.t Bucldhist Associations in

Shanghai ancl deliVE3rec1 freg_uent addresses which bo:i:•e chiefly on questions

relat:Lng to the faith which he had ado:9ted.

32., :Ourins March, 1934, the local newspa:pQrs reported that

Abbot, Chao Kung, accompanied by all h:i.s disciples, would shor'bly visit Europe once asain with ·the object o:r buil.cline the firr,rt Buc'.l.dhis-t Mon.astery,

to be the center :tor Jiro:pagating the doctdne of Buddha in the Western World .•

:r-Iowever, ln this he failed. Such ho1Jes were dest:tned. not; to ma.ter:1.alize.

33. On Iviarch 25, 1934, Chao Kun2;, together wHh four foreign

Budclhist monlcs and six foreign Buddhist nuns, le:f.'t Shanghai on ·the 'SS Elii.a?'R:ESS OF' RUSSIA bound for Canada., and early in May 1934 , he anc1 h:i.s followers e.rri v-ea. at Liverpool from Oe1nada on board the SS DUCI-ll~/3$ OJ!' YORK.

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As the deportation order issue(l agaJnst him during the G-rea·b Wai• by ·bhe British government was still in f'orce, he was taken :f:'rom the ship, after his re:eu.sal to continue on the tiarn.e vessel to Antwerp, and deta1.ned in jail.

34,. His disciples, who were not molested bJr the authorities, went into a boarding house not far from the prison, so as to be near their lei-:i.der. While d.etained in Livel':pool, H was repo:t:•·bed that Chao Kung haa. appHea: for permission, which was ref'used, to 1:ireach Buddhism in Jflngland f'or a period of four months,.

35. On the return of the SS DUC:f-I\~f3S 011' YOHK from Antvrnrp, about 0110 week late1:-, Chao 1{une was J;ilaced on boarc1 and leJ:'t England, toge-bher with n1s disciples, for Montreal. .After ·braYeling overland by rail, Uu,1 party finally boarded the SS 1TIEH?.:li;/3f3 OP Ii'.W'lSIA at Vancouver and o .. rrivoc;. bo.c:r. i.n Shanshai on June 19, 1934.

36. Wlrnn m1.bjected to the customary int.errogc:,tion by the :1?01:ice at Ieo1Je, Ja1)an, h(:J stated that three of the members of his y1a:i:·ty had been 0xc01mm.micated by him from the Buddhist ff.d.th because they were i11i te:rate and m1able to cor:;:preh0nd his teachings, but in:f.'ormatio11 obtainecl in 2.:Jhapghai shortlr 0..1:'te::cwar·d.s c·ontradicted t,hj.s sta:t0ri1cnt.

37. rrl1e ·bhree excorn1,1unicated Bu.dc1hists were all of :S'rench national Hy. 'I'he story they tolc1 on a1°:t'ival was totally dif':t'erent :t'rom ·the one related by the Abbot·t, Chao Kugn, to the Kobe 1:iolice. They stated that, unable to stand the ·tyrannical rule of their leac1e:r. and finding the hardships of their 11.:f'e as Budc1hj_sts to ·be more than they could endure, they hao. informed the Abbot that they :lnt ended leaving hir.1 h1 lTine;land and return­ing to J!'r@.nce. l'to doubt, reaUzing that desertion on the part of his :prose­lytes would mean much harrnf'ul publicity and loss of :presti13e, he did his ut­most to 1,ersuad.e them to change their decision. :B'ina.lly, when it became ob­vious that practically e·very country in l!iurope was closed to him and that he would be compel.led to return to China, he prevaUed upon the three d:l.s­satlsf':Led apostles to remain •with him and accompany him back fo Shanghai. There :is little doubt that since his :r.eturn to Shanghai, in June 1934, Chao Kung was in serious f.'inc1.ncial dii'f'iculti es.

38. He and six of his followers took up res:Ldonce at the

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19~3!5, he ana. his faithful br:U1cl of followers left the Bur1ington 1tot,0l and moved

into a boardins .house at 23 Hue Corneille. rrhe follow1ng month he le:t't Sliang­

hai and repaired to thE-) Tien rrai f:lhan temple at Chelctang. 'rhe suicj.de at that

plaoe of one of· h:i.s c1:i.sc1.ples, a Ge:r•man mm known as rrao Ta, gave Chao Kung and

his 1iarty much unc1esirable publicity. rJ:oward the end oi' July he returned to

Shanchai and. i-:1g1:i.in took M.s abode with h:lD disciples at 23 Hue Corneille.

?39. Chao Kunc had not abandoned his :project of leavinc China and

establishinc; a rluddhist 1:onastery in some other part o:t' the wo:t'ld, In the

Autur1u:i o:(' 1935, he macle arrangem.e1rts to leave for Madeira where, according to

b.is statement, :oer:mission had been g:ra.nt;ed him to sErttle and bu;i.1d. a r11.onaste17.

Re approached var:Lous shipping companies and endeavored to book passages i'or

h:Llaseli' and six of his monks and nuns; but a.1:1 he could not pay cash in a<1vance

for ·bhe tickets, the shipping concerns would m1ve nothing to do with him.

40. Re was still c1eterrn:Lned to leave Shanghai and he hi.t on the

e:i:-pedient o:f:' :purchasing a sailinc; vessel oi' about a hundx•ed feet overall and

getting it converted into a floirbing 111onastery-. With this sea-goj_ne; :ark, he

intended to make a leisurely voyage to Madeira with the half a.oz en monks imd

nuns still wilJ.ing to m1bmi-t to his leadership, A young adventurer nruned

aeuben was to 1::1.ct as captain and :orovic1e a crew of three or four young dare­

devils, like him.self, ·to work the v0sse1. M:any boat,,s were inspect ea. a:o.d it

is beli<wed that Chao Kung ·would have gone forward wi.th his scheme had he been

able to furnish ·the few thousand dollars required. for the underti:i.king. Un­

fortunately, his crec1H in Shanghai be:tng ];Jractica.lly nil, he was unable to

obta.in sufficient money with which to purchase a boat; and. so thi,s project fell

through. rI'M.s condition made it necessary for him to return to his former

esta"blisbment at 23 Rue Co:r:neille.

41. The da:be_ of his leavinG ·bhe above-mentioned address is un~•

known but it is believed he journ~yM.tto TM.bet where he ·woulct have an ab­

solu:te free :r.e1.n as there is seldom corrbact with the outside world. Here,

practicallJr the entire population, of which little is knovm., follow a religfon

called La:manism ·wbich is a modif'iecl. form. of Buddhism.

42., In 1938, he again turned. Ul'J in Shanghai, having grovm a

beard and now reaa.y to J;resent a new p1•og:ram ancl advised that unless ·the

gov0r.m110nts of Britain, Frsnce, GermeJ:lY, and Rus,sia. resign stmuJ.-taneously,

immediately the Tibetan Budfil1i S'b Gur>reme masters, without prejudice, 11re­

direot,ion 01' favor, will unchaj.11 forces and powers whose very e:x::i.stonce is

unl:no'ti'm and against whose 01,e:re:tions the !)Owers mentioned are conseg_uently

helpless.

1c3. As 1i1atters stand a:t. the J;)l'esent time, Abbot; Cb.1,.0 Kune; is

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There is transmitted herewith a photograph believed to be that of an individual named Ignatius Trebitsch Lincoln. 'I'his photograph was flLi:'nished the :&'ederal Bureau of Investi­gation by Captain J. de, Koning, 19 Nicolaistratt, The Hague, Holland, who stated he was informed by Lincoln of the fact that he has engaged in conf'idential work for various governments during the past twenty years.

I am setting out below a resume of the information con­-1:,ained in the files of this Bureau relative to Ignatius Trebitsch Lincoln:

Ignatius Trebitsch Lincoln, a notorious ir.d:;ernationa.1 spy, was avprehended by officials of Scotland Yard at Glasgow, Scotland on May 5, 193/t while conducting investigation at the request of the }Pederal Bu:ree,u of Investigation for the purpose of locating John Dillinger.,

On May 3, 1934 informet:Lon was received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that John Dillinger was on board the SS 11 Duchess of Y'ork" which was bou:n.dTor Glasgow, Scotland and due to arrive there on May 5, 1934. Arrangements were immediately made through the Department, of Sta:te with the officials of Scotland Yard to have this boat searched upon its arriv-al ·there. This was· done and no trace of Dillinger was found. However, Lincoln, traveling under the mune of Abbott Chao Kung, was found thereon and taken :i.nto custody for deportation ..

Lincoln, who was a notorious int,ernational spy during the World Wa,r, has caused the British Government considerable trouble by his ac·bivities :Ln fomenting rebellions among the British Colonies in India and various other act,j_vities of a rebellious

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.arrested in New York City in August, 1915 and held for extradition to Great Britain. Lincoln escaped from a Deputy United States Marshal in January, 1916 and was not captu.1'.'ed unti1 three months later when he was rearrested and extradited to England and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. At the ex1)iration of this period he was deported to Germany, where he became interested in numerous revolutionary movements .. He later turned up in Budapest and pro­ceeded from there to Prague, Hungary and Austria, where he was arrested for high treason on February 18, 1921. He vvas released on June 15, 1921 and given a passport by t,he Austrian au.thori ties, good for ten days.

Lincoln then left Austria and entered Italy, where he was arrested by the Italian police who took his papers and released him. He then entered l<'rance and later by means of a forged passport entered the United States where he was again arrested in New York City on ,January 26, 1922, taken to ~~llis Island and later deported from the United States.

This matter has also been referred to Asslstant CM.ef' of Staff, G-2, War Department, Washington, De O., and a copy of the photograph referred to furnished his office.

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I a.m. sending you another · · story which· should be added to the Black

Dragon Society report. It deals with the further actions of our friend Trebitsch Lincoln a'ld possibly explains vlr::;; he is so closely tied up with the Japanese.

As you probably know, · there was a terrific sub-rosa battle to

, .,control .the .choioe of.·.Urn ··now !)ulai Lama and .that the ,Br5.J:,ish finaJJ.y .,won. out~ Thus putting Lincoln on the shelf until some time in the future.

This also ties in with the last of the T\·:ent~'-One Demands ma.de by Japan on China, in 1915,hin which de:'13.nds were E1ade that. Japan".!se Buddhist priests be given co!:!plete freedom in all C:1ina. If that hnd been acco~plished, thP-n Japan would have controlled a very lnr1e vote for the Dalai Laoa, besid':.ls r.:::iinin.g- a cert.Jin spiritual control over th~ Chinese people.

I hope, that y0u ,'.;'Ot the additional rrateriaJ. which I sent. to you, on the Black Lira.eon 0ociety, by our mutual friend,

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It is hard tn'believe that this fantastic world 0£ ours still has not reached the limits of its craziness, of topping 3.11 that humn.n imaeination ever dared conceive even in its most bizarre -dreams.·

But the fact is, the end is not yet in sieht. Behind the news of the day, things are rolling out, moment­ous events and r,assing episodes, which in fiction would be dismissed as impossible. Still, they are part and parcel of the day; they are of flesh and blood, and throh with all - the action of the biological proc~ss of i.ife.

The British ~~pire, with all its gold and bullets, for years has fought three men and·ca.nnot subdue them. And on the defiant, desperate fury of these three men hangs the fate of wars and revolts, the whole conplex of the British Finpire•s tomorrow. And with it, perhaps the tomorrow of all ·mankind. ·

· •Asia is in flames, b.lrning·--not only in its east-ern stretch, alone the Sino-Japanese warfront, but also in the northwest corner, and also in the south. The Arabian peninsula ifl afire, juot as is Northern India. And it is more than just a local blaze - a re;p_onal turbulence which can be stamped out with a few reeiments.

Fa1-rzi Kawkagi, in Arahia, and the Fakir of Ipi, in India, ure much more than just two swash-buckling ad-/ venturers ;•1ho ride the crescent of race· resent~ent. Unchecked for years in their nig-ht r3.ids, looting, p"illaf\'inR', it is war, real and sinister, ·.vhich they wae-e agairist the British. Yes, the ~~nrrlish have tanks and I"1.achine l!Uns .:i.nd more than 100,000 soldiers chasing the!"l, but these two ph:i.n­tom-like figures have hehind them millions upon millions of Moslems and Hindu fl, all the fanatical fore cs Gf the 0rient. Ii" th-e uprisin.r~ is quelled here today, it flares uri there tomorrow with even ereo.ter violence - · the firo spreo.ds surely and rapidly, nnd has r,assed the stars;:; where it can be dis­missed as nothinr,- more than tribal rwnblinrr. The tal-dn,:, to the warpath by two frenzied men. It is war, in every senso of th,~ word.

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Th_e son of a Jewish school-porter in Hungary, if ever a. man h~s led a. fictional life, certainly it is he. l '

An'A.ngelican preacher in Canada; a member of the Enclish Parliament in London; British war-censor; a ~PY, ·1rnrk­ing sir.iultaneously for both &gland and Germany; a convict in a British prison'for three years; a counter-revolutionary pr·ess-chief duri•h~i tler I s rise in Ge.rm.2:.ny; <lic_t,etpr. can::, __ dictate in China, and then finally, a B·uddhist niori'k"':,;• a11·· -these Ignatus Trebitsch Lincoln has been in the sixty hec-. tic years of his life. And no\'/, he is on his way to become the Dalai Lama of Tibet, _the spiritual leader of Buddhism.

From a small school yard in a Hungarian villaee up to the thrc,ne of a Buddhist semi-god in Tibet - the road was long, arduous, and fantastic - still this man, who in .... .--Hungary. -~vas -~Ign,'l.tZ · T·rebitsch;- ·in· ~gland,· Timotius "Lincoln; and in China, Cna.o K:ung, .~emms.,de.stin~d to make it. ,. _,..,.,,,.,t~..._~r;.., , From Uarch 22, 1926, when 'in 'EnP;",.1.and in the bleak Shepton ·::alls Prison, his youn1_: and only son \-Vas ha.need for murder, all Trebitsch Lincoln's life has been centered around one motive: to ruin England.

That is why he •,vent to China, which seemed to him the weakest soot in the British imoerial structure. There he became a Buddhist monk, mad with h~te and unbending in his fury of spreading the anti-British. eosp~i • A darw,erous man, with dynami.te :i.n his over-powerin~ r~rs onality, he imr.tedj ·itP-­ly associA.ted himself with the Ja9anese undergrc:und movement, turned a11a:i nst l':::i.rshal Chi.1ns Y.n.i-shek, n.nd never rniss0d a cue to m:i.ke the Dri ti sh lot al:a"1-'.lys harder.. A lone wolf - fight­ing furionsly r.ut(~·,:·lth unabatir,e- ~eal the Dritlsh Empire --that ls TrebHsch Lincoln in China, just as is ?awzi Kawkaei in Palestine or t e Jf'akir of Ipi. in India.

And now, us London h1-:iars, 'trebi.UJch Lincoln is al­ready in L:1:1sa to mount the hi ··;l1o<Jst run,:;- in the Duddhi.st hier­archy o.f Tibet. Japn.n .i3 behind the move to .m.a.k~~ hL":1 the suc­cessor of the Dn.lai Ln:n:.i., de'l.<I for four year::i, and thufl, to destroy the l tttle in.flucnce U1at h:w remain;~d in ;.:;nt:lish hands in Tibor.. And Trei):i,tsch Lincoln i~i more than juot a will­ing tool to this sche.r:ie; ho is sold on it, body and soul.

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As ttie· spiritual leader of Buddhism, he would be able to undermine ~ritish interests with even more fearful conguences than he.has until now. Religious fanaticism, in

that corner of the \vorld,' is the deadliest sort of weapon.

Coming from Tibet, from the celestial heights of the Dalal Lama's throne 1 it would not only spike the anti-British fires

in China, but,,would clear the way .for the thunderbolt into India, too. ,,

Three me.n, garbed in cam'3l hair, with saffron head- ·

gear and goat skin sandals, against the might of the British

Empire cannot break them - does this sot.ind credible? Still it

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