Show China h ina Fashions I New Nef Province I In Center Asia sia M I p I t i n II n n I II It II Harbor Tea Tta To Tn Inner IV hv Soi lets lets' V n. n C W W s SIf r o ii-o h With l' l armies a pushing IlI into Chinas China's In III tho III o eat eatCh t. t Chinese Ch hI Sl governmental o machinery ry i I expanding In the II west Wl t. t Recently n a full Hedged twenty eighth province was was set sll up lip when for the first time o n governor was over the th wild and amI craggy border borderland land state between lW China Chin and Tibet should not be confused with westernmost extremity of China north of Tibet The Th newly organised province place u II million people square mills miles of m mystery un der the th organized authority of the th Chinese Republic I Although eara vans ans from forbidden city eit of Tibet once the foi fl bidden imperial city of China have ha tolled back and across for centuries the region Is no better known than a II building through which one walks down n a I corridor without looking Into looms The ancient ten tea road to 10 Tibet t trav travel el sed by cutting culling across 13 river gorges and ond climbing the snow snow- clad mountain ranges between them clearing ridges through passes feet high The titanic lc white whitt hulk of a Konka l one of or orthe the highest peaks man has ever lr scaled sours to an elevation of 24 feet fel on the eastern border banter of the new province Originated Here Mountain fastnesses shelter that thit rare raccoon the panda and the little musk deer whose musk pod Is precious caravan freight bound fur Chinese and French rench I perfumers Green and tawny pheasants troll trail their yard long tails through moun moun- mountainside mountainside woods Including the tho 40 40 Inch white eared pheasant coiled called horse chicken by Chinese In the new Chinese province perchel upon the caves of high Tibet only 34 per cent of the sparse population is Chinese Carrying the silk costumes and the Confucian classics and the tha lacquer rice bowls of or the cultured East they have set set- settled settled at the trading posts along car caravan avan routes Their neighbors life arc mainly taU tall Tibetans booted high booted coated fleece followers of Lamaism with their prayer wheels and t ni l Shi-li Shi IC III 11 1 t it i 1 i ril buck I into l l ir till the and K IO 11 trim lIm or oror or 1 i tl ili 1 I i dha Images S anil lamps ps In III gilt In June 1014 u II between China Chilla and Tibet with Great participating because of India to the south divided till tho Tibetan roof of ot the world Into In Front Tibet fill fac facing ing hI China of course anil Rear Tibet The former submitted to Chi Chinese nese e rull while the latter remained a n dependency with almost complete Ki lf mile In Front or Near er lr Tibet was further divided Into two Iwo special districts In the south II HI In the north Now provisional govern government ment luis has been replaced by uy a II regu regularly appointed lor of the new province gather Into n knot like a draw drawstring string the lIll frontier regions of zech Szechwan wan and a 1111 Tibet fluet reaches from the Tung river In Inthe Inthe the east Into the Land of Deep I e Cor Corrosions to the west where three thre famous rivers In n II rugged tract not T ro 0 miles wide run through paral parallel lei lel gorges gorleS for over miles before fanning out across all 1111 of southeast Asia The Mekong Melton goes to French Indo China and the pours through Burma past the old Moul Moul- pagoda Mightiest of all the Yangtze winds through tho entire breadth blendU of China r to empty at Shane Shang hai |