Awerican Explorer in Shanghai: of Conquering the Wilderness Dollar Cine. str. President. Gar-'Among the passengers by the
eld who passed' through. Shang: hai this week were "Mr. and: Mrs. William PF. Alder, Mr. 'Alder who is a regular contr to the "Century Magazine" "om travel subjects and who has' writ-tea many books on the. little Known regions, among them. the, "Isle of Vanisiting Men," treating of the cannibals of New Guinea, and "Men of the Tnner Jungle" and the "Artificial Empire," "is, now on his way to the City Lhasa. "His expedition is seienfife and ho proposes to survey the vicinity and make topographical naps of the roads, paths snd.
mass of photographic evidence, waterways as well' 08. secure taken both with still and motion cameras, When asked on Thursday by a presentative of this paper whether he would have any. difficulty. in getting into this forbidden section the world, the said that the American Governtnont had: taken up. the matter with Downing Street and that he expected smooth and ensy way ahead of Mrs. Alder, who usually accompanies Mr. Alder on his trips, in proceeding ax far ae Darjeeling, where sha proposes to avait. hia return. The party will be rather Jarge and to secure safe transit for his many instruments, ineluding sextants, dicodolites, transire,
special meteorological appliances, and chronometer with further in addition to the cameras, he Proposes to engage a force of 100 natives Usually, in the past, expeditions of this nature have communication with world for a time, Dut seienen is coming to the fore and 't high-power wireless act included in, the equipment and at no time with they. be more than a second or two from Calcutta, from which station Mr. Alder will rees ive daily reports 10. set his, chronometers for" weather research, When asked. "Don't. you over have any thrills on your' search:
parties, ach ae falling from 8 precipice and being rescued in mid air by. the ever. convenient one" he said "We do not allow thes to happen. T would just lovn to have thrill, bub on 1 properly organized expedition they do not occur. T. crossed Borneo, (dhrongh all the wild non) with but a single white com. panion and never had a thrill."
"But.
something out of tha not in every-day life, must take place?"
"Well, when in 1920 we wore approaching Borneo, the ship struck: a reef about a mile from shore, 0 we just got in the din and wore rowed to land, Ts all'
the day's work."
Don't you sometimes run short of food or water when cast on desert, idands?"* came the query.
"Na, T always take along enough provisions to Inst. me twice as Jong as T expect to. be stranded."
Tf we may be permitted to comment, either Mr. Alder wae not in a' reminisciont mood or ho is no Baron Munchausen, ox ho i too modest. But we will await his now book on Tibet. with interest.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.