TIBET SUFFERING.
ACUTE ECONOMIC CRISIS. DELHI, July 24. Tibet is suffering from acute economic distress due to the unfavourable exchange, high cost of living and high cattle mortality. The middle class are reduced to a strte of poverty, and the Government is equally afflicted through expenditure exceeding income. They have imposed heavy fresh taxation on all adults, with a poll tax of two tankas, worth six annas, and on animal owners, one tanka for every animal possessed. Sheep owners will pay a heavy tax in a lump sum for flocks. The Postmaster-General of Bengal is visiting Tibet to supervise the erection of telegraph lines from Gy; ntse to Lhassa, a strange innovation in a little known country, but will probably have far-reaching consequences.
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Grey River Argus, 26 July 1922, Page 7
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