Mr. GIN. Haardt Arrives from Peking Moving led an expedition over the general route of Marco Polo, and. encountered along the way numerous uprisings, with a minor revolution here and there, Mr. G, MIN. Haardt arrived in Shanghai on Mar, 3 from Ti Just two hours before military operations ceased.
'Mr. Haardt, who came down from Peking with' five members of, the Sino-French Expedition across Asia, fon March 3 at the Cathay Hotel where he is stopping told a "North-China Daily News" reporter that he does not regret having missed the Gin of active warfare, After, the Peace and quiet of Peking, where the party arrived on Februayy 12, he ix finding Shanghai full of bustle und turmoil.
Just a year ago the first of the two units of the expedition was assembling at Beirut, Syria. Equi with every modern scientific device for exploration, the unit. travelled In nine cars, "They made use of the caterpillar tractor, a cay desi ed after two years work on a type of vehicle wh would negotiate rough and roadless area:
10 unit included a' radio car, one' for moving pictures, an aeroplane ear, a supply car, and perhaps most unique of all, am Each car with' its trai separate unit, and was equi to proceed alone for several days if gut off from the rest of the expedi=
Mr, Haardt, who, is vice-president of the Societe Anonyme Andre Gitrotn of Paris, said tittle of the Achievements of the party, but inacai that he was pleased with the year's work, "Mr, Haurit, who Sonally led' the Pamir nit, which started out from Beirut, had other Accomplishments. inthe realm of exploration to his credit, before he undertook this most extensive overland project of modern times:
Following in part the path of arca. Polo, the ancient silk route from Cathay: to the Mediterranean, the group. traversed the parched Areas where Dr.
Toy" Chapman toy Andrews plans to continue his hunt} for traces of earliest, human habitat fon, and the track of Alexander the Great's conquering" march "to. the Indus.
"The expedition is a French enters rise in which the National Geograhie Society is ce-operationg. By the Fimo it is, completed, a large num ther of scientists and specialists in many fields will have been able to study obscure tribes, geology, zoology, plant. life, and strange customs of isolated peoples who are: living as they did in pre-Christian and even in pre-Buddhist eras, One Unit encircled the loft, Himalayas, while the other crawled, through Areas of "unquenchable thirst" and faced "deadly. sand-storms. They] Joined forces, at the mid-Awia renegvous of Kashgar, Hanvde was suffering from an annoying cold when he arrived in Shanghai, and ironically enough barred from participating in the few "diversions which a. Sate, of Imergency has left the once say port, He expressed his pleasure in Being in Shanghai after so long a time in' what stay-at-homies would term the wilds, Although the entire party. num bers 20, only half a dozen, members of it came down to Shanghai. The Femainder of the expedition has.
ceeded to Hanoi," where Mr.
rrdt will go to join them a little Having turned south from Peking, the party is touching Saigon, in French. Indo-China, and will then' round out 13,500 miles of travel by. continuing the overland journey: Arabia, Ehrough India, Baluchistan, and.
Mr, Haardt and his associates are now completing the major part of project on which they worked for Beveral years before they actually Took it into the field. Tt was necessary to enter into negotiations with the'- governments of the several countries through which they fed to pass. Theve were other details fo atynnge, as for example, the plac ing of supply depots at points along the route. "The year's accomplish! ments speak eloquently of the wi management of the " stupendous undertaking.
"Although Of. Haardt was sei ready to give out any real ment. so soon after his arrival the city, the general attitude of this unassurhing explorer, still slightly bronzed from is long trek through the wilderness, was one of satisfac tion over the first goal achieved,
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