June 11, Tachienlu, otherwise Kanting, has ridden in ils first rickshaw. Thus! marches civilization in the Province of which "Tibetan" is so picturesque a chronicler. Probably the wireless broadcast had been long known to the good folk of Tachienlu before they ventured out in the new con-voyances to the hot sulphur spring. Tachienlu's streets are hilly and "Tibetan" is afraid that the rickshaw will not be good at gradients. He looks forward, therefore, to the road-engineer as the genie who will devise means to make Tachienlu safe for rickshaws. Yet in the West of Tibet the traveller on the Hindustan-Tibet Road must have encountered signs of the vehicle which ministers to sophisticated joys on the other side of the border. That vehicle, moreover, has been specially adapted to cope with difficulties of which "Tibeta speaks. Though Shanghai may regard the rickshaw as a relic of the ark ages, seeing that trams "came in" in 1908, yet are now said to be: languishing superfluous on a stage on which trolley-buses lumberingly lide, and molar-omnibuses first made their bow in the Settlement's streets in 1924, the truth Is that it is a comparatively modern invention. Tradition says that the jin-ricksha or "man-power vehicle", was invented by Mr. Globe, an
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.