Religion: St. Bernards

Three St. Bernard monks (Augustinians), experts both as snow rescuers and proselytizers, left their Grand Hospice in Switzerland last week for Salouen, Tibetan village near the source of the great Yellow River. Salouen is 14,000 ft. high, cold, blustery as the Alpine heights. It is a Buddhist shrine. The St. Bernard group will build a hospice there, will try to convert, Buddhist pilgrims to Roman Catholicism, will succor the snowbound, be they converts or heathen.

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