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...cocky, young, U.S.-trained Chinese who had never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street. We planned to fly back with our pilot but, luckily, chance intervened...
...Tihua, Gruin and Colin-Ho set about interviewing everybody who could help unravel the Sinkiang story. Most of their informants were as effusively evasive as the stocky Russian manager of Tihua's Sino-Soviet airport who said he wanted no pictures taken because "the airport is in bad repair and it would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel...
...Achmadjahm has not answered. Sinkiang's Governor General Masud Sabri has posted red-lettered public warnings in Tihua streets: "None may plot murder against officials, carry illegal weapons, secretly trail or torture others, incite mobs to violence." Trigger-ready militiamen patrol oasis towns. Upon Peitashan's snowy heights the Outer Mongolians are reported to be receiving reinforcements and probing the Chinese lines...
...Tihua Picnics. Last week General Chang submitted to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a five-year plan for Sinkiang's reconstruction. Under it Nanking would send 60 or 70 technicians to develop agriculture and mining in the northwest. A large financial grant would be made...
Meanwhile, in Tihua, the Russians maintain a busy consulate general, a branch of their Foreign Trade Commissariat, the Sino-Soviet Aviation Corp., a branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...