Dr. Arnold Helm and several young foreign trained geologists fare at present engaged on a geological survey of the western part of Szechuan, They left yesterday: for Mount Omei, apparently following some formation which Dr. Helm first discovered somewhere near Tehang. The doctor is professor of geology in the Sun Yat~ n University, Canton, and he hopes in the spring of next year to do some geological work around the Gong-ga, two days journey from Tachienlu, Dr. Helm has seen the famous Zha-ra-la, to the north of the Marches, and is now determin ed to sce the equally famous Gong-ga. Dr Chow, of the Chingta University, a graduate of the geologic cal department of Lyons University, France, is connected with the pedition to Mount Omel.
Karl Roll, a German bustness man, passed through Kiating yesterday' on his way to Burma, vid Yunnan, Mr, Roll represents firm in Chungking and is in search of trade -routes into west China.
The rod which Mr. Roll hopes to follow was that taken by Col. Roosevelt and his party when searching for the giant panda, Tt lends down through the Jienchang valley and {is considered the great highway between west and south China. Chi nese business men have already taken to this rond, as travel down the Yangtse is so uncertain and taxes are'so heavy.
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