Peking, Apr. 14, Owing to negotiations between the "French authorities in Peking ant the Society for the Preserva-fon of ancient relies "the Sino-French expedition is likely to be libeld up for two or three weeks, Lut it's expected that matters will be amicably settled.
In the meantime the transport is being held up at, Hankow Pass, where the Great Wall erosses the province, and the personnel. is. camped there with the caterpillar tractors.
Friction developed between the expedition and the Chinese society ecause" the caterpillar tractors were shipped out, of Peking with: Sut permission of the society and She tractors were not: inspected.
The Chinese papers also-said another matter in dispute was whether the members of the expedition should carry arms, The expedition is part of the Hardt Debreuil-Citroen expedition, tone half of which started—rom Beirut on March 4-0n 5,000 miles tuck across. Asia, This part of the expedition is to be met in Kashgar bythe expedition "from Peking which is under the leadership of Mr. Cha Min-yi. The party consists of nine Chinese and 19 French-
Paris, Apr. 17.
The party, under command of M. Haart, vice-president of the Cit-roon Company and the first man to eros Asia in an. automobile, reach ed Baghdad safely after crossing the Syrian desert from Beirat.
'The second party' of seven heavy caterpillars which left Peking early this month is en route to Kashgar. All of the units of the Haardt Citroen Mission are to meet at Kashgar before resuming the task of re-blazing Marco Polo's trail across Asis The Peking unit is at Kalgan Dut it still has dificult obstacles to: surmount before reaching Kashgar. The Paris-Beirat unit is to press toward Kashgar from Baghdad ey way of the Karakoran Mountains.
The expedition will not complete fits work for two years In that! time it will have covered 16,000 miles in Syria, Iraq, Persia, Afghan-stan, Pamir, China, Indo-China, Burma, British and India Arabia—United Press, Differences Settled row Aca Own Contesroxoent Peking, Apr. 17, The "North-China Jcorrespondent is. authoritatively formed that, while the misunderstandings with the Chinese have been cleared up, the China unit of the Georges Marie Hi Asiatic expedition is likely to be [delayed several weeks owing to unseasonable weather in Mongolia. [where Spring is a month late this year. Heavy snow has fallen on the plateau during the last few days.
The seven Citroen caterpillar tractors which, with the baggage fand transport of the expedition, went ahead to the Nankow pass and were partially the cause of the mit Understandings with the Chinese on their departure from Peking on April 6, will leave next Monday for Kalgan, where they will wait, until weather conditions have sufficiently improved to enable them to start on their long westward trek across the the Gobi desert to feet the main body of the expedition at Kashgar. The main body is believed at present to be somewhere in Persia.
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