The Calcutta correspondent of The Times" telegraphs that Brigadier-General Sir George Pereira has arrived there from Peking, vid Lhasa, and gone to a nursing-home, where he will remain in bed two, or three weeks. He will then proceed to Delhi. He has covered over 7,000 miles, of which he walked nearly a half. He suffer eat from clots of blood in the left calf, which, however, never deterred his progress.
Interviewed, Sir George Pereira said that the journey had occupied Inearly two years. He had traversed a great part of West China and the whole of Fast Tibet. The; journey had been perfectly peaceful even in the two worst brigand-infested provinces of China, Shensi and Szechuan. All he had had to the processes of fermentation that! produce innumerable little bubbies! of gas. What costs money is not so! much the wine itself as the pro-! do had been to inform the Magistrate, who arranged with the brigands that he should not be attacked. He had been welcomed cesses of manipulation and bottling. Formerly there were profits to be made out of champagne because there was a world-wide market for everywhere and had been permitted to enter Lhasa, where he was the guest of the Commander-in-Chief and met the Dalai Lama.—Reuter.
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