Jas After wandering through Eastern Tibet for over two months, the wives, families, retainers, and escort of Chen Hsia-lin arrived back in Tachienlu yesterday. They have bad a hard and very toying tim they have experienced in thei travels one of the fiercest and coldest winters the border has had. for many years; they have suffered no small inconvenience, hurrying. fas they did from Tachienlu, without rainy of the things which make 1 easy and comfortable.
are now back safe and well nd_apparently none the worse of Uicie travels, They arrived back just in time to spend the Chinese year in their old quarters, tins General's yamen, Events have! proved that there was absolutely ne necessity for their flight, ax the Third, Army showed Military officials high standing remained in the y during the short occupation of the New Administration, Tt is not diffealt to imagine the rough time the of General Chen have Zharala (15,000) und other wes in Eastern Tibet ut this me. For months each year there Passes are croxved under neces-great risk and this winter hax been especially fierce and cold. The Tibetan flag which brought the Indies into town showed bhard and difficult the erossing lad been—they were tightly muted up and covered from head to {cot strong, warm sheepskins, only small opening being left for their eyes.
At any season in the year the passes from China into Tibet are of easy to travel. On some of them no attempt whatever has been lade to build anything resembling road. The weary traveller simply ploughs his way through snow and ice up one side and slides through snow and ice down the other. The river bed, if dry, naturally forms the easest rond and in time becomes the main highway over the pass, Across the frontier the roads are touch easier as the traveller is then fon the high Asiatic plateau,
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