Tachienlu is enjoying quite a hectic time (June 15); what with the arrival of Tai Chi-tao, the Chinese Government's representative of the burial rites of the Panchen Lama, and the Tachienlu race meet, the town is quite en fête. As this high minister of State has come to the frontier bringing the Government's condolences to the people of Tibet on the death of the Panchen the Tibetans somehow felt it was their privilege and opportunity to welcome and entertain Tai Chi-tao.
Ambassadors, góvernors, special commissioners and high Chinese officials have in days gone by graced this border city with their presence, and the welcome has usually, if not entirely, been from the Chinese population. The Tibetans have gone out to witness big men's arrivals and nothing more. But on this occasion the Tibetans gave the Official welcome. And what a welcome, what colour, what a fin out and what Asiatic grandeur. We have seen Ambans, viceroys and commissioners enter and leave Tachienlu but the welcome and reception extended to this official was something out of the ordinary.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.