The Archive · 1933

Learning to Fight by Broadcast

nanchang, Nov.

Beginning to-day, Gen, Chiang Kai-shek will broadcast an ap= propriate lecture by radio daily Army and divisional command:

cre are required {6 listen in and take notes of the =peech, which to be forwarded Chiang tater—Kuo Min, Red torves which Szechuan are fu ported to huve been eaplured. Communists Reuter. frontiers of Tibet and Szechuan. Solely as agricultural people, some of them. survive to-day.

possess two types of writing, one jetographie and. the oth in to the ancient Chinese fenting, though the spoken long ters radially from Chinese The as

Bulk of their Mteratue tx connect With the tribe's unique religion, this. world where the pre-Buddhistic cult Fegion being the only place in the of Tibet hag lived on its undistorted form. The Bon religion, as it known, still exists in Tibet, but, in a debased version, whereas the "Black People, who ate of Tibeto-BurmaD stock, ave never come under the influence of either Yellow or Red Lamas 'Shamanism or devil worship chaylacterises the votaries of this religion without temples, and at the native house where he' lived as the only white man among the tribe Dr. Rock was frequently surrounded. by a dozen sorcerers, and made film records of their are always performed in the open als. In ancient days shepherds in the grasslands of the Kokonor, the Naki are a warlike race, and have had some famous kings, whom invaded, and conquered a large part of Tibet, Dr. Rock enlisted the services of the tribesmen in his explorations throughout his period of 12 years, in the. West including great trek overland from Yunnanfu to the hend-waters of the Yellow River in South-West Mongolla—and always found them most Faithful. The Nakhi live within the great, western loop of the Yangtze, Sut there is algo a northern branch, calling themselves the Hlihin, who have no written language, though they speak a similar dialect, and observe the same ceremonies ax the "Black People." They chant, the same texts, but in this case from generation to generation. wien Relieved To Pablish Dictionary Hankow, Nov The important work which is to With the arrival of the

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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