The region is very rich in minerals. There Is gold, coal in great quantities, copper, all and asphalt, he continued.
The speaker described Urumch! as a very big city, all the life being on a long central revd, Coming from Turfan, one first reaches the Russian quarter. There Is the old Russian settlement which looks Like a Russian. village with typical country houses and shops. "Nex. is the Mohammedan, quarter called the Bazar and very' similar to those vileges in Asia Minor. There the mosques are in Chinese style. At the end there is the Chinese town, with pretty. good shops and temples, Dr. Orlandint lett for Sinkiang by way of the Yangtze in March, 1993. passing through Chungking, 'Teeliutsing, Kiating, and Chengtu, From Szechuan, he entered Shensi,—'The chief characteristic of the province the high plains of loess which are full of cracks and ravins, very deep and narrow. The aspect' of the region is that of a desert. The lack of forestation, according to Dr. Orlandin, is one of the main reasons for the floods. "From Sianfu, he} travelled to Lanchow. As fighting was going on between the Mohammedans and Chinese in Sinkiang, Dr. Orlandini left for Peiping. After a few days' travel from Lanchow to Paotow, he passed through beautiful dangerous gorges along the Yellow River. From Peiping, he travelled back to Suiyuan in preparation for his trip across Mongolia and the Gobi, fentering Sinkiang by way of Suchow and Polunchi. At that time, he said, the Soviet Russians had ended the war which had gone on for years in Sinkiang.
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