now Our Ow Comursroxsent Peking, Sept. 6. a einly curnned fom there "are Ginklang according to foreigners renter part of the troubles
due to racial differences, complicate ed to enrich themselves as speedily 4 possible, in view of the insecurity of their position, and also greatly irritated the local" population by seizing their daughters and wives odor increased by the presence of for. themselves. is latter is an forge nambers of Russians, Red and ever-burning question in a land Witte, who are, needless' to say, at Where Chinese women are few and Gnggers drawn, There are first of all far between, and where the Mahomthe Tarkis (or Cvantus, as they are the descendants of regan population strongly objec to their womenfolk having anything tribes, General Yang, who had been very do with "the Chinese." Unlike harrow. heads Popular and fixed freely" with the and beat into the settled ative population, General Chin and villages of the plains. who are searcely ever left the precinets of agriculturists, and Hho Noasloral [casions when he did s0, only in a his Yamen and on the rare. oc-
The second large section of popularmoured car, ao that rixed descendants of Arab invaders ruler looked ion are the so-called Tungans, the azo even know like, what their mast Atrenes in whom, however, the mahommedans Ghinese type mow predominates; Out of Control 1 alled "Huitiui" in other parts of these are. the same as what are Mahommedan ess and intriguing Ghina. although the Turkis-and the ral Yang's strong hand with population Tangant. are both, Mahoramedans, General Yang's strong hand with: they hate one another like poison, ready in li whol eastern wich'Is: the chief reason why the part of the province was in open Government of Chia, by playing of rebellion, aided by a Mahommedan hitherto b! and chief, Ma Chung Lin, with Been able to keep control against the othe, lis ther 'Mahommedan brigands " from far-distant province. The third and Kansu. 'The Chinese troops, much smallest section of the population better' armed, drove him out and hin could have suppressed the rebellion altogether, if they had wanted to, But it was the same old story, that has been enacted in 30 many parts of China, that it paid them better Wont influential and. have al= of (literally) to have rebellion cing than to suppress it complete-wayer'for their own safety, given Kebellions "became - endemic their' adherence to whatever central all" parts of the province Ghinns Winally there "are the Hus: gverment happens to bers large. portions of which were lost Chineie control. In 1982 Ma Slane who in recent. times" Rave Chung Lia. again invaded Sinkiang played a very important role in jand with the help of rebel. moun-the' affairs of the province, quite tsin tribes captured the important out of all proportion to their num-[town of Hum and slarted Mr, Huang lly made _himself so unpopular that he was ar-time, and. was finally lucky eno ested and! Kept prisoner for some to be allowed to escape by aeroplane thack to Nanking, where, as far as remember, he announced that everything had been satisfactorily settled thanks to his mediation.
The present position is that Lu, whom the Nanking Government at Jonce hastened to recognise, is now folie nominal and precarious Chairman of the Sinkiang Government, Jwhilst Kashgar and other regions Jare now once more under the control Jof various native leaders who at present nominally recognise the authority of Nanking. How long this uncertain state of affairs can last foe fore fresh fighting breaks out, Seems doubtful, Dr. Lo Wen-kan would certainty seem to have a difficult task before him, to pacify fand ce-ordinate all these warring restore the full Jcontrol of the Chinese Government in these parts,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.