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Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.*

To pay homage to the six-year-old Tibetan Panchen Lama, born on the exact date of his predecessor's death and considered by Tibetans the reincarnation of Buddha, lesser Lamas began their trek from all quarters of Tibet to his birthplace at Lihwa in China's Sikang Province. 50's The painful trench foot of World War I has reappeared in the present comparatively trenchless war.

The Red army was striking from Sikang and Tsinghai provinces, in China's far west, toward the formidable 15,000-ft. passes into the bleak Tibetan plateau.

The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi�places which two years ago seemed to most Chinese as remote as Alaska is to New Yorkers.