Dr. Sven Hedin's Plan for Re-opening Ancient Caravan Trail to Modern Commerce China war described as a possible empire builder, capable of sending. fresh currents of commerce into the West via her ancient silk road by Dr. Seven Hedin on Tuesday (Feb. 20) when he told of the future as he sees it for the coun-For n two hours, Dr. Hedin expounded his plan, sketching the vast historic panorama of the Far Eastin relation to its trade route and recounting his recent - expedition into Sinkiang for the purpose of surveying" the caravan roads of the past as possible trails over whic motor cars may speed from Shani hal "to Bordeaux in the not too remote future.
Emphatieaily the explorer claimed political knowledge or into declaring himself a geographer, geologist, anda. traveller, - whose major concern was in opening new tracts to civilization. In addition to is outline of the logic in a revival of ancient trade routes bringing East and West into closer relationship, fand inking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by an overland road, the farsighted explorer explained his. dis covery of the change in the course of the Tarim River. This makes Possible the cultivation of another fertile aren in China through the ample expedient of irrigation, he said, Incidentally, his latest expedi-lon into Mongolia and. Sinkiang, lurider the sponsorship of the National Government's Ministry of " Railways, brought him an opportunity to enter the desert lands of Peishan, As a Teault, he penetrated an area desolate that rot even' the wild trespass in it. Until now smained, unknown to any white 'N.C. Herald" Photo.
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