The local magistrate, Mr. Hua left Tachienlu for Minya on the other side of the Jedo pass. The Tibetans, more apprehensive than other people, have stored up enormous quantities of barley thus with holding it from the market in Tachienlu. Mr. Hua's mission to the grasslands is to fersuade the Tibelans to bring this barley into the city, hoping to explain that if they fail to do s0, the Communists may may come on them and relieve them of it. He tas also gone to see what help the Minya militia can give in the present crisis. This militia, composed of 5,000 armed men, if banded together " might be turned into an efficient fighting force, The lama and nomad soldier are magnificent fighters when they get every day distributing Scriptures on the plaza in front of the mission compound. This plaza functions very much Ike the Pool of Bethesda in that it is the rendezvous for a large number of impotent folk who come out fo sun themselves in the warm sunshine, Apart from this plaza Ralph Holder, were among those who the enemy on the run but very good stood by the graveside as we Lai runners when the enemy get them our friend to rest. And the last and on the go. They simply cannot stand final goodbye to the old warrior was reverse. The idea now, it passible, sung by the boys and girls at the is to mix them with Government graveside, one of his favourite troops. Gada, two days from Ta-hymns: "Wien He Cometh." And so chlenlu, is now in the hands of the we left our friend quietly on the hill- Reds and 500 Communists have made there are practically no open spaces side, the lamasery in the centre of the
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