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...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...
...scandal which broke in the Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
...Chinese journalists, knowing that their countrymen thirsted to read of Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
...since the greatest number of people who had ever looked upon the same corpse marched for five days in sub-zero weather past the bier of LENIN in Moscow had there been such a funeral as Raditch's. Result of his death: Croatian opposition to the rule of King Alexander has markedly decreased...