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Show ON THE WAY TO LHASA Jost tea yeara ago a woman clothed In rags dirty, tanned, almost black by exposure and at death'a door with fatigue staggered to the courtyard court-yard of the China Inland Mission house at Tachlenlu, Ta-chlenlu, writes Ruth Neely In tbe Living Church. When strength enough for speech returned she told her story. It was Dr. flusle Car eons Rljnbart, Rljn-bart, the first woman missionary who ever penetrated pene-trated the wilds of Tibet and returned to tell the story. All the world knwe tbe wonderful history of the woman'a bomeeard Journey of 1.600 miles, unprotected and alone, from tbe Interior,, near the outskirts of Lhasa, where she buried ber baby beneath a atone on the mountain aide and where ber husband was later captured by hostile aatlvea and murdered. Since that time only one group of foreigners baa penetrated Interior Tibet Thia was the band of Kngllahmen "ho reached end Invaded the sacred city under the command of Colonel Yonnghusband Since the unsurceanful ending of that expedition Lhasa and Interior Tibet have again been closed to the outside world, a wonderful won-derful region ebose mysteries have txwn guarded |