The Archive · 1928

Grateful to British

The whole movement is perfectly harmless, firstly, because the incidents depicted are all very mild, and secondly, they are not very true, While the posters were up, the Tibetans crowded into the se vice, evidently bent not missing this' good circus.

Since all they heard was an exhortation to trust in God, renounce their sins, and follow Christ, the audiences have thinned down again. I afraid Communism will have a keen a reception on the border as Christianity. AS of old, the hands. are the hands of but the' voice is the voice of Jacob, Alone the whole frontier there is' very friendly spirit, Tibetans, Chinese, and British are cordial in their inter course.

Why should these post~ ters, imported from somewhere in China, attempt to break the peace of this frontier town? This unfortunate and everything should be done to maintain and increase the friendly relations that exist, There are many Chinese soldiers on the frontier who still retain a deep sense of gratitude for what the Rritish Government did for them in their time of extremity in Lhasy shortly after the Revolution of 1911, 'A very peculiar thing has happened, The posters were put up one day in all the glaring colours fof the rainbow, and the next day: they were torn down again. Fresh cones were put up and the fresh ones were torn down again. It is now some time since new ones were put up and we are inclined to believe that the propaganda has come to ar end. If camouflage was their object it has been attained. The foreigners have been reviled. but the poor Chinese merchants have been bled. Whatever movement, be it Red, White, or Black, which overtakes' China, the merchant will have to pay for

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