The British Consul is now in residence and the British flag flies from the consulate. The usual distraction propaganda is now in fal swing: the British have oceupi Lhasa; British troops are in Chamdo; the British language is now taking the place of the Chinese on the Tibetan frontier; what. the wily British have up their sleeve is'being quietly, fully, and freely discuss. fed in the local Chinese tea drinks saloons. Fortunately and discreetly, officialdom wisely refrains from believing the rumours it has put in circulation. The Chinese border is quite a rendezvous for this distract tion propaganda and if it does nothing else it certainly makes life both interesting and. worth living. Perhaps the rush of visitors to the Darjeeling hills may have been mistaken for a British invasion of Tibet. However, we have _been through this distraction propaganda before and.now know something of its significance and value.
Wanted Road to Tibet Quite recently the Chinese merch-lants on the border petitioned the military authorities to: open up the road between China and Tibet.
Tibetan mereaants, it was explained were making long. journeys from the distant interior to purchase Chinese tea, These Tibetan merch. ants bring with them large quan ties of valuable musk; this they exchange for tea. Tachienlu for once in its long history has no tea, these Tibetan merchants have to stay on indefinitely in this city till the military leaders have settled their personal quarrels. The whole province is simply seething with trouble—north, south, east and west, the different military leaders are simply. dividi little kingdoms. haps when tis has been accomplished they may be satisfied or they may begin to fight each other.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.