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...Sudan, whose 8,000,000 people have little love for British or Egyptians, it was the same. Sudan, rich in cotton and wide with desert, is 3½times the size of Texas. Its people, Arab in the north, African tribesmen in the south, want their independence. The British think they won't be ready for it for ten years, but may be forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert...
...years, on the borders of the vast, desolate, far western Chinese province of Sinkiang, imperial Britain and imperialist Muscovy, Red Russian and White, China's bandits, warlords, Communists and Nationalists skirmished for power and position. None of them, however, won the allegiance of the hard-riding Kazak tribesmen who wandered the empty plains. Islamic nomads of remote Turkish origin, the proud and independent Kazaks went on pitching their flannel tents, eating only meat, playing polo with the inflated skins of whole sheep and 200 men on a team, proclaiming allegiance to Allah alone, and generally thumbing their noses...
Over the Hills. Last year, with the Nationalists finally driven to the hills, the Russians widened the caravan trails through Sinkiang and brought their tanks and heavy artillery to bear on the Kazaks. In four battles, the rebellious tribesmen lost 3,000 killed. Osman was captured and killed. His 5,000-odd survivors split into groups and headed south. Last week, after months of agony, picking their way through uncharted passes across the highest mountains in the world, one party of 120 Kazak men, women & children reached the end of the trail-Mohammedan Kashmir and its "City...
Nehru made his attitude quite clear when, discussing another item of business, he told his Parliament last week that head-hunting Naga tribesmen from Burma had raided an Indian border village, killing 93 persons, burning 400 houses and granaries, destroying crops and livestock. The Prime Minister added: "The incident had no geographical importance. It was an exhibition of exuberance which occurs annually...
...Tribesmen strategy is to head for a small village, pick up the dialect and try to make friends with the natives, then push on into the hinterland where white men have never been. They are steeled to the fact that conversions will be few & far between, even to the possibility of being received with war hatchets or poisoned arrows. Five missionaries were killed in Bolivia by Indians in 1943. But in spite of hardship and hazard, New Tribes attracts plenty of candidates for its work. There are 190 of them overseas-mostly in South America-living on about...