A telegram arrived last night from Yang Sen appointing Sen Chaosluan as Commissioner of the Tibetan Marches, Sen has accepted the post very reluctantly.
At the present time the position of Chinese Border Commissioner is sinecure, "Money, and nothing Dut money will up hold China's noble prestige. on. the Tibetan" frontier A certain amount of the Szechuan salt, revenue is supposed. to come the border to feed, clothe and pay the Chinese army of occupa tion, At the present juncture the different military generals throughout the province are carefully and wisely helping themselves first, and what gots through to the needy Tibetan frontier is. very little indeed, Chen Hong-fan sits tight at Wutongchiao; Yang Tsi-huei sits tight at Tungehuan; the lus en famille sit tight at Tsiliuehing. The other unfortunate generals on the outside patiently and calmly wait til the cards are reshuffled, TE fortune smiles on them they may find themselves a bit nearer the salt revenue than they were before.
Sen Chao-luan is prepared to take up the border commissionership only on condition that some of the salt revenue is released to carry on the order affairs, and also, that while acting as Border Commissioner he is allowed to reside at Yachow, eight days from the frontier, but better position to negotiate money. Tt remains to be seen what success will follow Sen Chao-luan. T have niet him several tintes and he seems to be a man of some ability. That prepared to take over the seal of office; that those in autho rity are satisfied in handing it to him; that he is ready to leave the border and do_all in his power to bring the frontier situation before those in authority in the Capital shows a man, at least willing. to shoulder authority, and to take up {position which at the present moment is financially hopeless.
Sen Chao-luan is leaving Tachie day or to-morrow and is proing straight to. Chengtu.
way there he will pass through the lines of General Lan and the Chinese forces opposing the border He intends to use his good offices, to cause If possible, a ces sation of hostilities. Marshal Wa Pelefu is now asking several genin Szechuan to use their Me Avence with Lin F-chu, advising. him to confine his sphere of operations to th's side of the Ta-hsiang-ling. Thear that Gen. Lan has withdrawn his army to Chinehi and Yuinehin, Southern Roads Commanded by N.
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Meantime the Third Szechuan army holds everything east of the Ta-hsiang-ling and the border troops everything west of the Feiyuch ing. Between those two high moun-tactful ruler. Wisdom—without stretch of country, and what is more important, one of the great roads from Szechuan to Yunnan. For some reason or other, both Liu Ichu and Hsiang Keh-wu are very anxious to have possession of the roads leading from this province to Yunnan.
'The Chienchang Valley, tween the two passes is rich in mineral wealth, one of the greatest opium districts' in west China, and able to export immense quantities of rice and oil to the Tibetan frontier. Should Marshals Wu and Yang Sen determine that this vatlay shall henceforth belong to the Tibetan Bordee Administration then automatically that admi tion becomes entivcly independent the Szechuan salt revenue, sast of the Ta: har to do is ta annex chang valley. To admi beroer affairs Sen Eh: have the entire revenue of this pro-sporous valley; to maintain the Third army Liu T-chu says he must have the Chienchang valley. Wu Pei-fu is now asking Tien Sung-yao and others to mediate between Yhe. border troops and the Third army.
Sen-Chao-luan has now been here about one month. He has made Reproduced
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