Only Official Communiques to Be Published in Peking Peking, Sept. 13, A sensation has been -eaused in Chinese newspaper circles because of the "decision of the Peking Political Council. to-day forbidding the publication of reporte. of its proceedings ther than official come This decision is a sequel to the Just wizzed over the house, We feel iden coup he obtained possession of Batang (his old home And strangely enough the bet working in the' cleaning up complaint by''Dr. Chiang Mo-lin, fas if we wore in the front line "The Tibetans are not very numer ous, about four or five hundred, and the' defenders ave a Little more. "At ist 40 have been killed on each more will pass vee is. broken, Three mails in succession were taken after almost wetting in." dated July 22; "The war still continues, making the, ast day sine and there is no. pros} cly. termination, fa Siting with
About five days ago four and his Chine have not arrived. half loads of ammunition ca and about ten soldiers, which helped out a little but not enough to drive the enemy away. Ma Si-ling reported to have left Litang (14,000 feet igh) and belive that hin'time ti tres "Hand grenade have come in'so: when the fbetans Came love they are. treated. to& ant surprise, 1 do not see how
eral ears ta ey have ena cam wu a the men nor the money. they' almost. captured the once or twice, "When Ma comes we are going to confer with him about leaving.
News now, reaches the city, how true we don't know, to. the effect that, the Gong-ga.lama's men anc the Tibetan soldiers will Tift. siege, of Batang on one, condition, namely' that Gezang, the present Administrator of that part of the country, is. handed over to them, dead. 6r alive. This is indeed a terrible condition, perhaps a ruse, as. iWenrries with i€ automatically. the capitulation of the Chinese garrison As long as Gezang can hold out, fand"as long ay the food will last, the city is perfectly safe. " Unless however help comes in some shape or form, the Chinese garrison must tultimatcly starve or capitulate oF fall." Gezang has stil considerable power and influence and courage to withstand the intermittent attacks of the surrounding Tibetans, and help comes in time, the city and situation may be saved. Should Batang however fall, the position all over Eastern Tibet would become Very serious indeed.
For some unknown reason the surrounding Tibetans are purposely. Teaving one loop-hole of escape, and at the same time an avenue for relief. There is one road in and out off the city by which messages come and go between Batang and Litang, and along this road the mail carrier travels and along this road Ma Si ling and his men hope to enter Batang. Why do the Tibetans leave this road open, and apparently make no effort to close it?
The Chinese armies on the north Lhassa road have gained all their objectives and now occupy Rombat-Derge, and all the country east of the Yangtze, 'The Tibetan forces have retired, apparently without any fighting, to the country west of the 'Yangtze. The Dajay lamasery, which was supposed to put up a strong fight in defence of the Lhasa. ministration retired before the Chin-tse forees' without offering any Jand proceeded to "make _himsel if fow price of rice has an adverse }of the tooms and in the kitchen master of all ssurroundiny the feature in tnat after last year's while the men are engaged in har: country. A native of Batang, ani flocd many farmers in the north of der and rougher work, 'Those men ote ChinegesTibetan ori ud the province had to. borrow money Who find employment' are not per-Speaking both languages® dec Rimseit® to" be. administrator to obtain seed and the price obtain nitted to reside in the house and Jed by. the, sale of this years har-must provide quarters for thei the new." province vest isnot sufficient to cover the families as quickly as. possible, 30 (Western Peace), "ite Jichts incurred. to make room for those who regime by insulting the Saoehwa Cholera has unfortunately raged worse off. All the rooms are provincial authorities in' most di in several towns in the. province and kept in. perfect aking advantage but Changsha has been. singularly oder, and are very different to the of his Nanking appointment, and his free from this scourge. ovals at the roadside, where many ess outfit, and is, undoubted During the past week, Mr Eh had at first to make & home, ud his local following, and Chin-lung formerly of Checloo Un: There is a large. kitchen with lopes, for the future, he state versity, Shantung and one of China's boilers where soup can be prepared wing" right a left, till a price prominent educationists, has arriv-to feed 2000" people, "the - sou 8 placed upon his head, and then Jed. to assume the headship. of the tasted. by the visitors being excel.
quietened down rer the Department of Education, For the Tent, with boiled beef, potatoes and take he had made, last few days the city has been other vegetables. Griginally the
Hwaned his eter soiwaie and with very full of students resuming thei Studies or taking entrance examina. committee gave such dinners every' day, but this was found tobe too Jon the "Roof of the World." Gesang tions but owing to the shortage of accommodation. many will perforce person per day." Now lentil. soup expensive, costing 20" cents per hou rin secure anna dow was, while Chiang wasin power; but the old. story. rep there arose up a new el Now The return to the country disappointed, Will be served two days a week, at Government is. reported to 2 cost of 2 cents per head, and
knew not Joseph—and Gezang's wi organising an athletic gathering for one day vegetable soup ata cost of 4 cents per head, thus reducing following, who were ed month, the whole province tobe held next the average cost to 12 cents per high and \influential The rainfall during July and head, and enabling the committee Tost interest in the new administra.
Avgust must have been the lowest to {eed more people. In the house for of the new Chinese province eff for many years. For. one short itself 1,218 dinners are served, be-Hsikang. period of four or five days the tem-which some 600 of those' who There is rumour that Gezang is perature was high reaching the 100 not live in the house, recelvs Inow negotiating with the Dzam-ba-degrees mark but apart from. this inners daily, the total. number of wa to throw in his lot with them spi the summer wae quite comfort {free dinners' thus reaching neatly. and find a way of escape by Lhass able owing to prevailing breezes, fand India to Nanking. This however To the regret of nota few of the 300 per cly. TA the. rose chen is not large enough to supply throws the Gong-ga lama and the Str, Alexander, the' demand for. meale,. the Gone Tibeta troops against each other consal hers tee havegjust constructed another la lienates all his following singe June has returned to. Han-kitchen "inthe courtyard of" the Batang, who refuse to recognise th building, from which place the out. Lhasa' government. There is one Idoor open through it he walks dace diners "wil be served, "here large playground for the chili: into the arms, of those he insulted of whom there gre neatly 300, jand denounced, Clemency might
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