Tibetan Tribes on the War Path According to correspondence from Lichiangfu, northwest Yunnan, " it would seem that the unrest of other parts of China were in comparison only a touch of spring fever.
Our correspondent states: "Yunnan is in a terrible state. All the soldiers have been withdrawn from here and sent to the capital to fight in the civil war over the governorship. The Tibetan tribes have cleaned out Chungtien and threaten to come right down to Lichiang; if they do there is nothing to stop them—except the Yangtze. The whole northern border to Yunnan is crumbling with revolt and the country is everywhere unsafe. In the south, bandits. hold up caravans indiscriminately; in the north, the Tibetans kill and harry. Meanwhile trade with the Tibetans is at a standstill and the fair here this month promises to be a fiasco. Half the country is under opium crop and the price of rice soaring."
After this, the deluge!
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