Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-02
millions or CHINESE
NEVER HEARD OF WAR
Returned Missionary Tells of Re-
Inarkablc People Found IN
Heart of China.
WARLn1E, BUT ARE HosPITABLE
Settle Quarrcls in Manner Known TO
Middle Ages OF the Occidcnt, Tilt
ing With Spears and Broudsworis.
Many Types Found.
rBv Associated Press. I

Many Types Found.
rBv Associated Prcsel
si NEW YORK. Feb. Fifteen thou
sand miles from Broadway, in tho
wilds of Western China, where the
foot of white man never before had
trod according 10 Rev. Or. Joseph
+ Beech. Methodist missionary, lives
polyElot nation OF more than 4,o00-
600 persons. 's5 per cent of whom do
not know that there has been war"
DR.. Beech. who is president of tho
Western China Union University at
Chenstu, in the province of Szechuan,
maintained by five evangelical denomi-
nations of England, Canada and the
United States, and who recently ar
+. rived here 10 participate in the Mctho-
dist centenary. to-day told of n jour
ney he took alone. with a native guide,
the habitat OF the tu-rcn. or children
OF the soil the sirangest people in tho
Orient"
The doctor passed three weeks
the land. which is inaccessible rs
Thieet, he said, and while there found
almost every type OF mankind. includ-
ing pysrics. men and women rcscnb-
ling negroes. American Indians, East
Europeans and cher races apparently
from all quarters Of the globe. These
people, OF course. he said. had never
been anywhere else than in the coun
try he found them. namely. in Il re-
sion about the size Of New York state,
bounded on the north by the province
and kweechow, the east By SScchuaa
and the west by Th;hct
LAND OF BEATTIFUl.
VALLEYS AND FARMS
Il found land .. ss@uttul valleys,
seye:sd s'ta IN, Sne 5aTns and oons
nouasa,ns from $500 to 1900 feet
h,sh TIE trSn'ieI OF ne county
fortified buildings. manned by natives
armed with weapons resenei:As the
oid-fashioaed e!uuderhuss. l, is not
crisirstors o. gunPowder for the Chi !
cEse- who to- years have tried TO rule /
thaa The aowde. they make them (
selves
Although suspicious and warlikc,
and hostile - some kinds ot Chinese,
able, sud fed and sheltered us Huge 4
Sracsesiz cks IN their communities gave
dus;riai cities. When We arrived we
found they were employed solely for (
tha purpose ot drying and curing veEc- /
tables, meat and lsn which were sus.
pended, tier upon tier, the entire height
OF The chimney.
The architecture OF the country was
Sling in many respects the feudal cas-
Ties OF Normandy In other respectss
instance. after being harvested, was
threshcd upon the roofs of the houses,
Just as in the Holy Land The houses
boxes, with perhaps one window. from
which the odors and smoke OF cook
ing escapes.
EVERY NAN IN COUNTRY
LAW UNTO HIMSELF
fed castles nag was flown was
told these, were prayer nags,' and had
canoe. Every man in the country. APP
parently. is "A law unto himself Each
tribe has It's chieftain. but there IS no
national head, and China exercises only
nominal sovereignty.
"ouarEelss arc arc settled on horseback
of stone and hroadswords. The
enemies challenge one another, and at
wiry ponies at each other. It is seldom
that both combatants escape alive but
ne Survivor is required 10 feed and
as long as they live. and this makes
'duelS rare. In many respects these
ecoombais resemble the tournaments Of
DR. Beech said that while he believed
he bad penetrated further into this
other white man, he regretted that he
had not gone still further. Tor my
Sa aiae i said ne said thar four or I'VE
tiribesmen near Sungpan who are just
Ike you are That is, natives who APP
conversation and n,ode of living. Of
course, lie said vas characteristics Of
the country.
How, SO many different tyres o,
people located there is a problem for
he he ethnologist." resumed DR.. Beech.
,S Sne theory Is tina, they represent ali
the warning tribal elements that have
come come into the continent OF Asia and,
driven by the Mongols and Tartars.
refuee 'Hs eiw t@S II ns II this natural
northern part Of Asia
EACH TRIBE INDEpENDET.
but SPEAK SAME LANGUAGE
Each tribe is Independent, OF the
o ona ,! al speak patois OF Thibetan
seems TO be anrnistic or that az To
Llamas. The most numerous are The
Lo!oS, which. again arc suhdivided into
sInaIlc! tribes. Others are the Niaos
who are polyandrous or poiveaTn"us
These people, believe are rcsponsive
10 CHRISTIAN influences and kind treat
men. and 100 missionaries would bring
10 them the enlightenment they so
much need. Nothing has ever been
done for them by civilization.
All OF the natives are farmers or
herdsnen. The latter raise huge mum
oers Of goats. hundreds Of thousands
or when can be seen on the mountain
SIDES Recently. or since the Chinese
have equipped their army with modern
rihes. the Chinese have opened up trad.
n 1ns Wtin i ne tu-Ien,, and now vast
being exchanged. The Chienese. too
are unizing some of the valleys to
raise opium, but this is done without
the approval OF the Pekin government"
Speaking OF the possibilities for OK
panding trade in the Orient DR. Beech
declared China alone could enable the
great powers TO reCoup their war
losses They. are hungry for Amer.
lean goods" he said. and the field
is UNLIMITED. The Chinese PEOPLE arc
mighty cultured, even the poor coolies,
Lney desire only the best things
thina Is rich IN untold undevoloned re-
sources Make it possible to devotion
me resources Of China and the Chinese
peQDls VIII hECntun fcro..ar. ...=.-.