Covers 16,000 Miles of Asia On Foot and By Bicycle Claiming to be the frst of his countrymen to have started out on our of the world on foot, Mr. Piya Maung Maung, Burmese glove waller, arrived in 'Shanghai a day 'OF two ago,, with a record of 13,000 miles on fool, and a further 3,000 bicycle, "behind him. Maung eft Burma' in 1031, at the age of fhineteen, and has been walking ever since, During this time, he has tramped all over Burma, Siam, the Shan States, Yunnan, India, Assam, and Tibet, returning to Burma in 1935, On his way through to Tibet, he passed through the Indian border province of Sikhim. Here he met Mr, F. Williamson, the British Political OMicer, and' his wife, who gave him every assistance. He was Sincerely grieved, he said, to hear of Mr, Williamson's death' some six months later from poisoning. In Yunnan, he was captured by some Clanese' bandits, but they eventually released him without doing him any harm, Recently, he visited Malaya, boarded a' steamer for Swatow, and walked via Amoy to Foochow, inecting with no trouble on the way. expels to leave on foot for Nanking and Peiping in a few days, will visit Mongolia and Eastern' Turestan, and in the course of the next few years eventually hopes to reach England. 'There, he says, he will write a book, which some Burmese friends have promised translate into English for him. The ook should be fairly amusing; his chief impression of Tibet, for' instance, is that the princesses never bath, the apprentices who are all under eighteen, and one-third of whom are under sixteen, have very little time, (oF opportunity for anything ix hgo but work of the hardest kind, From people interested in these boys, a provisional comimilice headed by Mr. Timperley grew. up, and sponsored, as an experiment, three nights @ week of recreation for apprentices employed in the Yangtzepoo district and who attend night-school at Kinchow Road during ihe winter months. The Shanghai Municipal Council teaned the use of the school grounds, and a trained games supervisor was obtained through the Chinese ¥. M, C. A.
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