While T am speaking about burned temples. T might mention another interesting temple in the nearer Wes-{tern Hills. that has suffered the same {fate as the temples of Miaofengshan, in the course of the fighting.. This ig Tientaishan. better known to. for-Jeigners og the Mummy Temple.
Tt got this name from the gilded dol. a seated figure, which was supposed to be the mummy of the first Manchu Emperor Shun Chih who, according {0 legend, Is said not to have died in the year. when he is officially reported to have died, but to have abdicated and become a monk in a temple in the Western Hills.
There does not seem to be any cal evidence for the legend and. whether the idol was or was not a kenes of the emperor. it most cer~ tainly was not his mummy. In the first place, allowing for all possible shrinkage, the figure was much too small for' that of a full-grown man. and anyhow. on repeated occasions when the priests were not looking. T have tapped it and felt it. and. wes obviously nothing but "gilded Kunming-Burma Railway C.N.A.C. Plane Lahore, May 20, To the feat of road building which the Chinese performed when' they completed in' December, "1938, the 2,400 mile" Chungking Kunming Burma road within a little more than a year, they will now be able to add 2 feot in railway construction, writes "The Civil and Military Gazette," Lahore, The acceptance by the British Government of the financial responsibility for the construction of the railway} from Lashio, now the terminus of the railway and the starling point in Burma of the Burma-Yunnan Road, fo the frontier of Burma, will accolorate, work on the railway that the Chinese propose to build more or ess along the Burma road, thus giving Kunming, the picturesque capital of /4he Yunnan province, and Chungking, the temporary capital of China, direct access to the Bay of Bengal, China's back door in Burma may. now be said to have already become her front door, Difficult as one may find It to believe in view of the ad: verse verdict of experts! in the past who examined the financial prospects of railway projects between Burma. and Western China, the Chinese have {ound the Burma road unable to cope effectively with the traffic available,
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