Show N new e w pr province an cie in center asia Asig 4 mysterious borderland 1 harbors arbors tea road to inner tibet prepared d by national geographic society breur washington D C service with japanese armies pushing into chinas cainas terri territory tori in the east chinese governmental machinery Is elpa expanding i anding in the west recently a full fledged twenty eighth province was set up when tor for the first timea time a governor was installed over the wild and craggy borderland state between china and tibet should not be conf confused us ed with Sin kiang westernmost extremity of china north of tibet the newly organized province places i a million people and some square miles of mystery under thi the organized authority of the chinese republic although c caravans ra from lbassi forbidden sacred city of tibet and peking once the forbidden imperial city of china have tolled toiled back and forth across for centuries the region is no better known than a building through which one walks down a corridor without looking into any rooms the ancient tea road t to 0 tibet traversed by cutting across 13 river gorges and climbing the snow clad mountain ranges between them clearing ridges through passes feet high the titanic white hulk of minya konka one of the highest peaks man has ever scaled soars to an elevation of feet on the eastern border of the new province panda originates here mountain fastnesses fast nesses shelter that rare beir like raccoon the giant panda and the amber haired little musk deer whose musk pod is precious pree 1 ou 8 caravan freight bound boun d tor for chinese and french perfumers perfumery ers i green gree n and tawny pheasants trail their yard long tails through mountainside ta woods including the 40 inch white whit eared ared pheasant called horse orse chicken by chinese in the new chinese province perched upon the ahe eaves of high tibet only 34 per cent of the sparse population is chinese carrying the s silk ilk costumes and the confucian Contu clan classics and the lacquer rice bowls of the cultured east they have settled at the trading posts along caravan routes their neigh neighbors birs are mainly tau tall tibetans Tibe tans high booted fleece coated followers of lamaism Lamal sm with their prayer wheels andrud and bud 0 I 1 11 N J generalissimo chiang kai shek chek whose government i is eing being driven back into china chim by ly the iriva invading ding ja japanese anese ani and was responsible for for tation madon of the new province iba dha images and butter lamps in jilt gilt roofed lamaseries lama series serles in jurie 1914 a treaty between shina china and tibet with great britain participating because of india to the south divided the tibetan root roof of the ae world into front tibet facing ing china ot of course and rear near tibet the former submitted to chinese chilese rule while the latter remained a i dependency with almost complete self rule in 1928 front or nearer tibet was further divided into two wo special districts in the south louta and chinghai Ching hal in the north naw ow Six angs provisional govern nent ment has been replaced by a regularly appointed governor boundaries ot of the new province jather gather into a knot like a drawstring the frontier regions of with van cunnan and tibet reaches eaches from the tung river in the he east into the land and of deep corrosions ro oi ons to the west where three fa amous 0 u s rivers ivers in a rugged tract n lot 0 ta 50 0 m miles iles wide run through paral lel el gorges for over miles before fanning aiming out across all of southeast asi sia a the mekong goes to french indochina indo ado china and the malween pours through brough burma past the old moul nein mein pagoda t mightiest of all the yangtze winds ands through the entire breadth of china to empty at shang hat |