Prom the right banke of the river, Mr. Kevthuel threw 'a Domb ino the opening on the lett root of "Tibetan
shocking and seatiering a company of Hue Yon' the et bank, somewhat Minya militia, ¥ uld With such accuracy on the part of this French "gunner "the befans ecoided "to nefurn at ea 10 the and the prayer wel." One hundred mon vould. hold Hfokow agalnel-attack feom any Uirection. garrison' this Yalung. The Communists by som moans or other had grasped the keoKraphical signifeance of this great river, and if they were to get themselves out of their present dilemma, and find an avenue from Sikang to 'Yunnan, it must be down the Yalung, where they had the' possibility. Joining their forces with Hsiao Keh and Holung. And Hohow, when Hsu and Chu's forces arrived there, found the city deserted, apart from' a few decrepit old women who found it Impossible to move.
'Ton thousand nice $5 Central Bank notes are' floating merrily down different rivers on_ their way to Shanghai and the Pacific Ocean. Yesterday between 10 and AL am. the buzz of two aeroplanes sent Tachienlu all agog and. the populace began to wonder if a iand-Ing was again to be allempted, However after flying over the frontier for some fow minutes the two planes headed again for the Chengtu Plain. Before leaving they very kindly dropped eighteen bundles of Central Bank notes fo pay the troops along the border and to carry-on the offensive against the "Reds In the Sevenicen bundles wore safely collected but unfortunately one bundle containing the above amount dropped into the river. The Hunan soldiers made a desperate effort to recover the lost bundle and after considerable searching and dredging hope was given up at last and the Joss put down as a donation towards the wealth and prosperity Shanghai, "This is the second time the mili-indy "along the frontier have "sus-{ained such a loss. Last October 9 bag of notes dropped from an acro~ plane fell into the river and was heard of no more, The airfield in Tachienlu is rather small and the surrounding snow mountains moke it necessary for the planes to fy very high consequently the bundles are Uropped from a height. The planes irene over the field and an occasional thud indicates the arrival of another bundle. How the accident happened quite impossible to explain, The notes, unless some lucky Chinese fisherman, eschewing the precarious existence' of a Chinese lottery, fished them ashore, will probably enjoy a new life on the ocean custom's officer fuding the Reds were marching In force on Hohow decided not to fight and ran away, The Hohow magistrate on his arrival in Tachienlu was promptly detained, but what could he do against thousands of hungry _half-starved Communists. travelling down valleys search of food. Desperate men Wore ina very desperate situation.
Rod arrival in Hohow, however did not relieve their terrible condition, "If a prize were given for ilapldation this city would run a wood chance of securing it, Its ter-Fible claim (0 notoriety is, its me Gullable bugs, The weary traveller their evil hands is quite hors de combat, We once spent a week in this wicked place and the bugs, of every" species crawled on to the coiling and voraciously and with Abandon threw themselves down, on our bedding. My wife made tre mendous objections but how can you circumvent bugs who make. their hhabltat a Tibetan ceiling—impossible.
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