Some years ago it was the Chinese who kept you out of Tibet. You were told it was unsafe to travel and the Chinese government could give you no protection. You made a written statement declaring you were prepared to carry your life in your own hands. The Ulag, ithe only means of transport in Tibet, you suddenly discover, is indisposed and may remain so far some considerable time.
To be armed with a British passport, a Chinese pass, a Tibetan permit, is absolutely no guarantee that your fees will traverse one square mile of 463,009. Tibet is closed against trade, research, Bolshevism and everybody and like, the latest patent safe is only opened by the owner's key.
Tue American Consulate-General would be pleased to receive any information as to the present whereabouts of Mr. Mathew Grady, who is thought to have come to China in May, 1923, on board the str. President Jackson as an ordinary seaman.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.