The following article is the first of a series written by Mr. James Huston Eigay of the China Inland Missi who Its been travelling for about six years in the almost terra incognita of the Tibetan Marches. This vast district is governed for the most part by nat chi ete nominally under the suzerain 33 independently both Peking and \ina, but in reality they rule quite
Lhasa, In religions matters the Dalai Lama exercises supreme authority. Roughly speaking, the country known as Tibet comprises the three great divisions of Tibet Proper, Kokonor and the Tibetan Marches. In Tibet Proper different rulers recognize a central Tibetan authority, over which the Dalai Lama exercises saprense control both in temporal and in spiritual matters. In the other two great divisions, however, the Dalai Lama has jurisdiction in spiritual matters only. The powerful chiefs of these regions acknowledge no central Tibetan authority, but Chinese Imperial Commissioners exercise more or less control over them. The Chinese Government, at the present time, is endeavouring to strengthen its posi and with this end in view is aiming at introducing the provincial form of government into the Marches, a policy tendered necessary by the execution during the recent war of the two powerfal Tibetan chiefs of Litang and Batang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.