The Jealousies of Two Rival Generals:
Lives and Property Sacrifice A Melancholy Review Fnom Our Own Tachienlu, April 30.
The Chinese administration on the Tibetan. frontier shows every symptom of a serious and immediate collapse, Wu Pei-fu, we are informed, has appointed Lin Hsiang as. Border Commissioner. When Lin Hsiang, if he ever does so, will take up his position on the frontier is still a very, remote proposition. The road from Tachienlu to the outside world has now been clo the general public for weeks; when it will open is still somewhat uncertain. "Chen Lisa-lin with 10,000 men and Liu T-chin with 20,000 men have placed themselves right across this part of China and are playing a very keen game of Somebody to move and win." Tu the meantime, mails, trade, and commerce are enrively suspended fand the merchants are anxiously waiting to see what will be the final Outcome of the present struggle.
"Moat the merchants, Tibetan and Chinese, have no interest in the preent dispute is certain, it being a purely personal affair between Chen End Liu: an old border animosity and a present geographic difference, If. Versailles would only function, the present dispute might amicably settled, Chen wants this fand Liu wants that and as. in all Chinese affairs a compromise will ultimately be arranged. Our only rlovanee is the dislocation of the nail service and the abnormal {nthe price of ergs. Apparently the altitude seriously affects the hons and we almost entirely depend con our supply of eggs from the outside world,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.