Nanking, Nov. 27.
A. French mountaineering club has applied to the National Government, through Dr. Jean Escarra, French egal advisor, for permission to proceed to Tibet in order to ascend Himalayas. The request has been granted, and the Tibetan authorities have been instructed, through the Executive Yuan, to provide the expedition with the necessary facilities. ("te ts understood that the French explorers will follow the route mark-fed out by the British expedition to Mount Everest in 1927—Kuo Min.
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