Cannibalism is now being resorted to along this once Communist fested road and the official in one place punished a man for eating the Bodies of twelve children, In some places enough seed was saved to plant out small crops but where there are hho crops to harvest in the autumn the condition will indeed be very serious. Ho Long, Hsiao Keh and Chu Teh may no doubt be making the world safe for democracy but in the meantime 'Tibetan men, women and children along the great north Lhasa Fond are dying of starvation. "And now the rice merchants in Tachienlt ore wickedly hiding their stocks of tice till the price rises higher and higher. 'They' (led to do this once before when' the central authorities were on the border and wore severely reprimanded for doing so. The price of Flee has risen to $00 per picul. Pare Doublet hed long chats with Mr. Hollssen and told him much about }famine conditions along the north Lhasa read, Conditions in_ Danba. Mongkung, Tsonghua and Shuehing fare also very bad, The nomadic Tibetans seemed to have suffered very little from the Communist invasion of 1936 and their mobility was no doubt their salvation, With their large herds of yak and cattle they simply moved to a point Where the Reds found it dim cult to follow them. And the nomads have not the lama aversion 'o taking life were always prepared to defend themselves. 'The Danish Journalist Is now on his way to Chengtu, Peiping, Shanghai and the United States. hopes to revisit Los Angeles where he' spent some months.gathering information for his book on. Hollywood,
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