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THE GOBI DESERT WOMAN'S ADVENTUROUS AIR
TRIP
paased, indeed, a few hours after endure this. The plain of our ap Wang Yehfu a cluster of four proach was, dotted with hundreds
houses, where they gave us a leg of yurtas, reminders of the wild of pig and the use of fire, accepting spaces and nomad life behind us. in return auch presents as thros But above us in the sky I heard the needles, half a spool of thread; drone of an meroplane; dividing six inches of laundry soap. the anicent yartas stood a modern We passed also many lamaseries, wireless station and an aerodrome, where the sons. of wandering first signs of the penetration of
from the Mongols are housed while learning Russian culture
ROYAL TOUR
H. R. H. CREATING VERY FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION
THE "SAND MOUNTAIN" Anna Louise Strong gives in the "Daily Telegraph" a well-written
north.. and interesting account of a recent
to read the ancient Tibetan Four hundred miles yet further, car trip across the Gobi Desert via
We passed, also, on the we knew, lay the Trans-Siberian. an ancient camel, route connecting scriptures.. the 'North-West of China with the first evening the decaying body of We were still among the little- capital of Mongolia, and very far a Mongol woman, which reminded known outposts of earth; yet we
Is of the primitiva. habits. of the seemed already to have
reached from the usual route from Peking Mongole in the disposal of their home. We had reached at least the to Urga, by way of Kalgan.
dead. We were delayed for an telegraph, and a city of banks and The party left Ningala (the last Chinese city and "point of departure hour by the body of a dying camel, stores and houses. for all the unknown ways of Central writhing in the camel track between Asia"), accompanied by the local sand dunes, where we could not go around it. The stench and shrieks General Meng and his bodyguard.
were nauseating; the ungainly All morning, says the writer, we wound uphill towards the purple creature circled its head like a and rocky clifa of Alashan. We venomous snake, with poisonous passed the Great Wall of Chins, green foam frothing at the mouth. which at this point is very dis. Only with much labour were we able
AT NAIROBI appointing in size, utterly dwarfed to drag it from the roadway with by the cliffs above it and lacking entirely the majestic sweep and the
London, Yesterday. towers that mark it near Kalgan.
The Indian community in Nairobi The moment of greatest thrill in was given a special opportunity of But the view back repaid us; a our entire trip across the Gobi welcoming the Prince of Wales at rounded desert land · of great came when we reached the Sand a garden party, arranged by the vaatness. Close by the cliffs were Mountain. Our guide halted us in Municipality. With the few Euro- the Sishla tombe, sand-coloured the midst of sand dunes and said, peans there were ¡ présent In- pyramids, marked in an ancient "For the next six miles to the Sand dians of all classes from artisans language, containing the remains Mountain. I go first to show the to wealthy merchants, who warmly of a dynasty which is said to have way; let each ona follow with in-greeted the Prince. come from Tibet to rule this region, tervals of five minutes. Go fast; The Prince conversed with one and to have been driven back in keep in sight of my tracks, but not prominent Indian about some of the the days of Mongol glory eight in them. Do not stop to give aid places he had visited and the people centuries ago.
to any other car. If any car is he had met on his Indian tour. He' stuck, we will send back camels also discussed questions affecting from Shall ajal to-morrow."
Industrial reintions between the cotton growing countries and home manufactures...
The boundary between China and Alashon (which is a section of Inner Mongella) is marked by a small hut and a well of water. Thence the road led between cliffs across the summit of the mountains.
ropes.
Sand Mountain
With these words he disappeared into a wilderness of white sand hills, which rose ever higher and higher. The Prince joined a party of the One after one we followed. When leadera of Indian and European By early afternoon we gained our it came the turn of our sedan we communities at tea before starting rat view into Mongolia. It was could see no sign of life before a long, motor drive to. Lord like the seaa vast blue-green ex-us except the wavering wheel Delamere's estate up country, panse fringed by a yellow sand- tracks already beginning to fatton British Wireless Service. beach,... Later we learned that the under the wind. We knew blue-green colour was sagebrush, and the yellow sands were dunes where nothing grew.
GENEVA OPIUM
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Geneva, Yesterday.
that if our wheels sank through the crust made by recent rains (and no one knew how strong We soon had our first view of that crust might be) we would wait Mongol tribesmen. They came lost in some cup of the sand hills galloping towards us with eager under the sunset till help could be curiosity. Robes of red and yellow summoned from the wandering and orange and blue made, gay the tribes beyond. We had with us landscape the women rode and
great iron cans of water and lesser walked like men and were disting of food. None the less, the tinguishable only by their head dress, and by the great jewelled ornaments on their foreheads. Both in the colour of costumes and the frank manner of greeting they differed from the Chinese. But
In the days we spent crossing the United States, to forward for the these southern Monrols- are none. uninhabited plain the few meetings submission of the Council, the the lean touched by Chiness in-we had with people stand out in names of two persons satisfying the fluence; they have permanent set- charp significance. There were three conditions laid down by the Con such encounters. Just before reach-vention for membership of the Wild Goats
ing the Sand Mountain we,
Permanent Central Board for the we had our first view of a friend from Urga, sent down by Control of Oplum Traffic In view wild goata, streaks of light flashing car to guide us. He had waited for of the. Council appolating members swiftly away from us over the a month at the well of Shallaini, at its Session An December.
The Board will consist of eight brown earth. (Later we were to unable to proceed south across the chase them in our motor-cars, and Sand Mountain till the rain opened members, appointed for five years One of our number was to meet the way. I still remember the with re-eligibility of membership. death in a hunting accident.) Wethrill of that unexpected car, ap--Reuter.
prospect had its edge of terror. The Secretary-General of the We were all relieved when the last League of Nations has circularis- of the cars pulled up at the well of led the governments who are parties Shallajai at two o'clook in the to the Geneva Opium Convention morning.
of 1925, inviting them and also the
tlements and ins.
Soon
met
saw lovely vistas of camels and proaching from the unknown north white sheep like, a fleece on the across the desert, with an unshaven, hillside, signe of a nomadic but eager white man emerging to shout relatively populous life which was a welcome. It was our first sign to die out as we approached the from the north, towards which we unwatered regions of the Gobl. I had for two months been travelling Thus we drove through a sunny from Central China.
CRUELTY CHARGE
PIGS HEAPED FIVE HIGH ON
#HIS JUNK
JUNK MÁSTER FINED
A junk master was, at the Kow- study at the Sun Yat-sen University loon Court, this morning, fined of Moscow, and choosing this way $10 or 14 days hard labour, for as the only safe path for their recruelty to animals,
afternoon to a golden sunset. The We met also the day after leay- mountains of Alzahan turned purple ing Shallajai, a caravan of Chinese and terra-cotta behind us, and students, returning from two years" faded at last to a clear steel blue, Before us in the sunset gleamed the walls and turrets of Wang Yehfu, half-Chinese, half-Mongol, the ultimate outpost of life before the desert.
turn to China. Bewildered young The prosecution stated that on folk, sent two years before by a boarding the junk while in the Nationalist Government as a mark harbour, pigs lying in crates were Not in all China had I seen such of high selection to study in Russia, found to be heaped on top of each a jewel of a town. Many little and now returning to find them other, in rows of five. Only some brocka ran down from distant hilla selves prescribed for their learning of the crates were provided with to make this valley, each lined with by the Government that had sent matting, and the legs, and in some a fringe of green trees. Orchards them. Gaol and perhaps death cases the heads, were protrud- and gardens, watered, by Irrigation, awaited them, instead of high posts ing from the crates. The animals, swopt from the settlement up. bo in Government. They came by however, were not seriously in- the heights.. where sheepfolds camel train with girls riding ahead jured.
crowded the summits with high and men striding behind on foot, Mr. W. Schofield, in passing earthen ramparts against the cold bronzed and sturdy. Eagerly they the sentence, remarked that he winds of night. The city wall gathered around us to ask the news tad heard of animals being heap- which cut the sunset sky seemed of China. Then they passed to the ed two high, but not five. higher and more picturesque than south and their unknown destiny.
the Great Wall of China, though No part of our trip was more | STARVING MAN WITH: $1,300 It was only the buttress of a single joyous than the grass, mountain trading town against the ancient near Bashengtu. We had been Nearly £800 in cash and notes hordes of the north.
climbing steadily for many days and securities worth more than. We came into the town at early and had reached a height that we $1,000 were found in aram- twilight. Beneath white towers hardly realised. Now we came to shackle cottage at Wallingford of a lasery strolled red-robed a grassy rounded summit, down inhabited until recently by a man Jamas: little boys endlessly turned which we cossted for long distances named Thomas House, who was great wheels on which was wround at great speed. The sport was not apparently starving. the newly span thread of camel's without danger since the route was wool, later-to-be-woven into saddle not visible. before us, and it was bags. In the shope along the often necessary to turn sharply at streets were glowing forges, copper the top of some hillock to avoid a kettien held over flames to be polish-precipice. It was after this day ed,basket-ware,wooden barrels in the hills that we came at night shaped to fit the sides of horses, to the lamagery with the Chinese Down the street and across the trading part. Tocky - streams.clattered horsemen
/The Last Lap
House, who was a journeyman saddler by trade, fell ill recently and was taken to Wallingford Infirmary, where he died. He lieving officers who went to the cottage found the hermit's un- suspected fortune hidden in old
All the neighbours thought
atarvation. They
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