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French Explorer Ends Solo Trip Of Lolo Region & Lake Kokonor
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By Roy Essoyan
Associated Press Correspondent)
the French Far Eastern Institute In
anni and. Paris.
Defore
the war. De Migot went
R Andre Migot, 52-year-olil government. He started his trip student of Eastern religion through Tibet on his own Initiative and philosophy, reached Shang-
but plans to present his Andings to hai a few days ago after a one- man expedition through Tibet. His trip stretched all the way from the land of the Lolos in the south to the wild and moun- taingis Lake Kokonor region in the north, which an American
experlition is planning to explore this month.
In March last year Dr Migot left Hanoi, pashed north through the mountains of Lolo. land, and at Tachieniu ---on the Sikang-Szechuan border- atruck enst ward into Tibet. In September. more than five months and 3.000 miles later, he reached Lanchow, brase for the planned Milton Reynolds Boston Museum expedition starting this month.
from France to Cilentia on a bicycle, through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Persia, Aflianistan and India. He wanted to study Indian religions but arrived in India in September, 1939;
and, when the world war started.
joined the French forces,
On his trip through Tibet last year, Dr Mignot survived attacks by ban- dits, imprisonment by the Chinese Reds, and a stall-scale civil war in and seemkely unperturbed Lolo and even pleased at what be cul- sidered interesting experiences.
LIVED LIKE TIBETAN
For five months he lived, ate and dressed like a Tibetan-and, he ange he thrived on it. He has sturlied the language in his native France and bal
difficulty making himself understand, He found the people friendly and co-operativhe stud book in his stride the adventures that crossed his patte
♪
But Dr Migot didn't get
Dr. Migat rad Intu adventure soon after he left Hanoi. Shanghai until a few days ago. Traveling with two proaters and After reaching Lanchow he tuos 10 yaks carrying his provisions, time out for a long stab into cpment and fr-which he used uf exchange-br Inner Mongolia, and back near pushed north past Kunming and Peiping "just for good penetrated Into
innit of the Lofos mensure," he says--he spent un into small-scale civil w
the Lolos and Chinese two weeks as a prisoner of the between
troops. Chinese Reds,
WILDEST AREA
the itainous
Just be the
1.
Once in while the Lolos rebel against isolated groups of Chinese soldiers who, most of the tone, da not venture beyond the city limits of the points they are garrisoning. From Tactionlu Dr. Migot had
then Tituatio pushed 131
On the last lap of his Tibetas expédition, before reaching Lan. chow, Dr Might passed through what he described as the wildest area of his travels the ite land between Lake Ngoring and the Anyemachin mountain range where the Reynolds expedition hopes to find a peak higher than Mt. Everest,
He passed within sight of the Anyemachin range "snow- capped peaks suaring into the sky" and
Lake
skirted
tu
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.
IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT
LABOUR EXCHANT
DIRECTION OF
LABOUR
MEN: S 105
"'You start next week as stoker in a hot-pio factory,' he said.
to a hotter place than that,' I said"
BE A
FARMERI
BOY 44-DAYWIL
-HOUR-DAY
And you can go
Siva just keeps
AM in a position today to tell you something about Indian
art, because I've just been looking at tons of it-100 tons to be accurate,
It is all on show for three months at the Royal Academy at Burlington House in Pic- Kautze and then east by 1, where cadilly. For eighteen pence one
visafed the central library
Books and can look at it from 10 am, to Tibetan and Studdst manarseripts, The Tibetans, be, ex-7 p.m., or from 2 p.u. to 7 p.m. on Sundays, As a subject for plained, model then lives principles of Buddhism, and though the conditions of life are primitive, outing it is not half a heavy the relations between villagers are as it sounds. prareful and untroubled,
Lion
It WRN
STAPLE FOOD
3
Kuzne-time varied
and variid
test
l
are
It is usual with displays of this kind to start off by saying how much the exhibits worth. You cannot, really put a value on things which are unique and not for sale anyway, but it has been estimated that if a private person were to gel a collection like this together it would cost him £5,000,000.
The staple food is "tsama", mixture of barley pander, salt and tea. The diet ** by the architton of yak butter
O usually
yoghurt Ngoring source of the Yellow but this autoinst Buddhist restri-
rare derasions they eat yok morat-
River.
the killing of beasts Lunc Dr Maget described "During that last lap we healthy and strong. didn't see a human being for
That works out at a flat rate 11 Zogchengemba monastery, near Dere, that Dr Miret of £50,000 ton, or a fifth of three weeks," Dr Migot tok) the
was untiated into the Karmapa Associated Press.
its weight in gold at today's "It was all
after a veremony which involved res desert and short, stubby grass,
citations from ancient ananuscripts, ¦ prices, the dranking of sometdied water and One of the weightiest and And wild, the wildest country | the swadhowing of specul pilla.
most valuable lumps of art in passed through. One member
Then he pushed on to Chinhal the exhibition is two-ton _of_a_French_expedition was provinev (Köktomer) and hom
killed
order elty-of-dyelando disguised woman_carved__in_sandstone._ by Ngolog tribesmen
Tiketan the struck eastward in They had to bring a crane into there some years ago."
an attempt to rich Lhassa. He got the Academy to lift her into to the saree of the Mekong River,
position. was recognised 25 શ This part of China is so wild but finally and deserted, Dr Migot said, foreigner and forced to turn back...
INTO INNER MONGOLIA that only the biggest caravans venture through it--and that Back at dyekundo he joineri o only once or twice a year,
large caravan and set oft in a north- carly direction, through the wild regions between Ngoring Lake and the Anycachin range, which
the Reynolds expedition plans to explore next month. Hi reached has ter
September. Lanchone, in
COLLECT BOOKS
the
4
years C
well
She's 2,000 old, and very
Her mea- preserved. surements are: Bust 45ins.. waist 29ins.. hips 48ins. I know This because I tuok them myself,
MEN URGENTLY WANTED
ICH THE WANKI
THAT
By Ernest Thurtle, M. P.
THE American State Department might almost be charged with spreading dismay and despondency among our people by publishing its analysis of the probable British economic situation at the end of June 1952.
A prospect that in Britain we shall still have food, clothing, and petrol rationing four and a half years from now is the reverse of thrilling.
Presumably the State Department has tended to paint the picture in dark colours in order to make Congress realise how necessary it is to approve the Marshall plan promptly.
Yet its gloomy estimate must have some sort of factual basis derived from Britain.
That is what disturbs, for the conclusions set forth are worse than anything our Own leaders, even the reallst Sir Stafford, have so far told us.
Can we be given some reassuring words on this subject?
✰ *
THE education of our people concerning the real nature of the so-called "Progressive" or “Popular" democracies of Eastern Europe pro- ceeds apace.
Bulgarian Communist Dimitrov (of Comin- tern fame) revealed a new technique when he hinted to defiant Socialist deputies that they might share the fate of the hanged leader Petkov.
on
talking.
With his hands, of course!
*Music,
plosse
'Now rest"
BERNARD WICKSTEED
The enemy -fire
'Calm yourself!'
The little demon
Indian
has Fun Finding Out
about.
and
anything but enl fame. Their descendants are still there. Many of them are reduced now to turning out cheap wall pic- tures at 4d, a time.
one
The sculptors who worked in the temples went from building job to another. living as monks and priests, without thought of personal reward or fame.
One of the first things you must realise about old Indian pictures is that most of them were not meant to be hung on walls and looked at from distance.
They were kept in books, and taken out on wet days like the photographs in the old family album. They are painted on palm leaves or paper, and small enough for handing round when there is company.
Change in name
THE old Indian artists
It is truly an odd sort of democracy which employs, as n methott of changing opinion, the threat of 1 hangman's rope,
1 nm prejudiced enough to hope. that this new method will not. spread to Britain.
It would indeed provide a poor politician with much food for serious thought.
Yet there are said to be some M.P.s in our own Parliament who And the new Falkan "democracies" attractive.
We must trust their education Is proceeding.
* ✰
RING out the false, ting in the
true, may be said to be the New Your's message of Mr Morgan Phillips to the Labour Movement.
His call for the rooting out of the Communists and fellow travellers was not exactly a message of peace and good will, yet withal it was very timely.
Rasleatly tolerant and pacific, the be Labour Movement is prone to meek and gentle with these dis- rupters, and they have taken full advantage of the fact.
Now the need for self-preservation
comes into the plcture.
By command of the alien Comin- form a barefaced attempt to wreck industrial recovery is being. al- tempted by the Communists.
Their success would mens more misery for the people of Britain, and cerinin disaster for the Labour Government.
Therefore they_must_be_fought.. bad and fought without quarter, for they
curious ideas on perspective, stand condemned as the enemies of and most of their pictures look the people,
painted as if they had been From the top of a tree or in a helicopter hovering about 20
European lol. feet up.
There is also Indian
In this Pollitt
versus Morgan Phillips duel I put my money on the Labour Party secretary,
n Welsh- man, whose
and qulet imanner studious appearance belle his fight- ing quality.
Alert and well informed, facts and logic are his weapons.
One of their slickest tricks snatchers.
Was to work tiny pieces of Temple idols are not the only
art that the beetles' wings into the paint so forms of Inlian well-informed man should know that it dashed like jewellery. He puts the case for political Well-known scholar of Buddhism
If this show, the greatest of Labour with the thoroughness and and Tibetan civilisation, Dr Migot's minus.
The old Indian sculptors did a hint that you should put
its kind ever held in Europe precision Lord Citrine wan wont to main
nim during hin pilgrimage After watchbig his breath, however,
painting. H through the little-known
had been put on before August display at industrial gatherings. he decided to take in a 1,000-mile not exaggerate just for fun, something in the poor box. wastes DI Sikang
books and truck and rain ride
Most of this is Hindu work. last year it could have been was to collect
into Inner They had a reason for it. Their the god is holding up his hand
He may be outshone in fiery travelling north.. past manuscripts on hudlusm and Bud- Mongolia,
work was entirely devoted to like a policeman stopping on- The old Moslems had a tradi- called "Indian art" and every-emotional appeal by Harry Pollitt. dhist paintings, and to further his Ninghsła to Paolow,
religion, and when they wished coming traffic it means he is Lion that painting was an body would have been happy. but when it comes to hard fact and studies in Buddhist philosophy. He
to show a god in human form giving you a blessing.
armumption by man of divine But you can't do things
carnest democrat like clear logic this is a graduate of the Louvre Callese
from the Welsh mines will triumph in Oriental Archeology and the
they made him something more Some of the figures have six powers and that painters would that now,
every time. Callege of High Studies in Buddhist
than human to indicate his and eight arms, and by saying go to hell..
The promoters have had to
Morgan Philology, and is head of an are
divinity. The same rule applies something different with each
is nggressive. but only the On Judgment Day, they said, call it "Art chiefly from
of the after the manner for the French
wicked cheological mission
to the goddesses.
they can practically deliver a the painters would be called Dominions of India and Pakis-animal who, when attacked, had the
upon to put life into their tan."
temerity to defend himself. creations, and naturally they wouldn't be able to do it.
De Migot plans soon, to travel up the Vangise to Chungking and then push on overland to Tachieniu, to pick up Buddhist seralls and mam scripts ordered during his stay at the
gehiengomba motmatery
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
THE American film people vade-youeur, little bit of who-cum,
are reported to be eon-eum, do-cum. little bit of cucum sidering the introduction of ber, of the Gnathrologist, remarks that the working man today has advertisements. into ins: everything to lose but his chains. cleverly interpolated boasts for Arbeiter, in his Hardt und Offenbit- certain goods.
ten Belterbit, says much the different is the sane words. low,
What's
my mirth-Suibbo is for pulishing floors. No wonder you shine!" Then, on with the teene.
thing
Marvels of science
sermon.
*
When the ancient Greeks carved the figure of a god they You have to be an expert to gave him much the same pro- understand what they say, but
Indian who was. portions as a human being, with I got an
to
Akbar's Influence a height of eight times the wandering round the exhibition length of the head. But the to do a little translating.
KBAR. the greatest of the Indian sculptors developed a He took me to exhibit 404. Mongul Emperors, who came convention that the height of This is a bronze figure of the to the throne in 1656 when he their gods should be ten times gol Siva dancing on the pros was 13 years old, helped that of the head, which maker trate body of a small child. break down this tradition. them look tall and slim.
According to my Indian it is
He said that painting made. not really a small child but an artist realise he could not Gesture sermon
demon.
give life to his work, and so This Siva has four arms. The his thoughts naturally turned
Was
that the statues of gods
or blood vessels.
So
their
I am all for it, especially if it is ther Are we to reconelle all this ANOTHER convention outside left arm (on the right to God. done with humour, itere is a bit of will. Demetriùs Tangsturen olthund dialogue for a tense love scene in the Town Hall at Crewe? He
thing about fire, and the inside which Akbar started, flourished "Your eyes... your hair your said that, dizains, was a first should show no signs of bones in the picture) is saying some- The Mogul school of painting face in the moonlight...
To extract the full fruit-tartlets. this stuff that makes you su mad- níquine from the above copy it en limbs have a smooth, stream- left is indicating repose. The for several hundred years and top right hand is playing music resulted in some of the finest. deningly lovely?" "Suibbo." "But to blotting-paper and hold it upsidelined look.
and the other is held out in a work in the exhibition. Every surely you don't rub Sníbbo on your down behind a mirror, Schlipfen- An interesting thing about
.worth-while Mogul had gesture of reassurance.
his face?" "Why not?" "Well-pardon fritter.
all these carved gods is that
court painters who used to sign Freely translated this means their work. | every resture and attitude they
strike, has some hidden mean that Sivn has destroyed the fire They were the only Indian ing. They talk in a silent demon, good has triumphed artists who did, which is why language. When a figure of over evil, there is no need to nearly all the work in the ex- Buddha is making an "O" with worry any more and everyone hibition is anonymous. the forefinger and thumb it can relax.
No one knows who moulded doesn't mean "O.K.." or Most of the temple gods in the dancing Siva or carved the "Everything is hunky dory." the exhibition have been taken two-ton woman. The unknown ng it does with us. It means to London from different Indian masters were hereditary crafta- you should pray,
muuseums, where they have been mon with much the same status A hand held out with 'admired for many years, and as tinkers or tallors. the palm forward and the their ownership is never ques- They went about their work fingers pointing down means tioned. But at one time there without fuss in the bazaars "giving." In other words, it is was quite a trade in them by with no thought of achieving!
4s he dead, chief?" "Stone cold. Knifed." "Khlfud?" "Yep. One of Jivelt and Romburg's self-cleaning atainless knives." "fon, flacy're swell?"
Was Henry James
Mrs. Trefadden?
OPITFISCH in his Geschoptlische Schrlegetpauter, which Munnub has well called the vademecum,
Automatic reversing drum for electric boring mill, showing, inching rolay and double Le/chore crave-spods
"I said, "The hounds of spring ore on winter's traces,, but let,
it pass, let it pass !"