Hankow, Aug. 9.
Zoi Vsevolodovitch Galens, pro~ bably the world's most youthful] military General, formerly right-hand man of General Chiang Kaishek and military genius of the Northern Expedition of the Nationalist Forces, left Hankow by train late this evening for the north.
Galens has purchased a number of motor trucks and touring cars locally, and those have been loaded upon railway ears to accompany him to Chengchow.
Chinese automobile _mechanics have been engaged to accompany the expedition, and a great supply of repair equipment for the cars has been taken with them, so that they are equipped to make necessary repairs in mid-desert, From Chengchow Galens will fol-ow the route opened up by a number of Borodin's couriers, westward rail over the Lunghai At Tungkwan the cars! will be unloaded and the overland journey to Sianfu, in Shensi, will made. From there the caravan will journey' northwest _through Kansu, and thence across the rocky steppes and desert plains of Inner Mongolia, the Gobi and Tushetu to Urga., where Galens will join the Russian advisors of the Nationalist Government who have gone before him during the past month. It is believed that Galens' ultimate de: tination is Moscow.
One of the motor trucks has been fitted up as a "prairie schooner," similar to the type of covered, days of the Gold Rush.
Only instead of being slowly and painstakingly hauled inches at a time, as were the horse-drawn vehicles of "49, the covered wagon of the Galens expedition has been mounted on a light, high-powered _motor-truck capable of a speed of thirty miles an hour over the desolate ex-Panse of the Mongolian desert.
Galens, after a spectacular career swith the Nationalist forces in China, has feft—like most of the other advisors of the Nationalist Government—through the back door of the new China which he has helped to found, Having achieved. fame al-
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