In 1928 the Kelly-Roosevelt Ex-edition spent U.S$100,000 ust to Shoot one giant Panda, Last year, Mrs. William Harkness arrived in Shanghai, hugging a baby model that she had captured north of Chengtu—eight days" Journey, to be exact—and which was the first one believed to have been captured alive." She Kept it in the Palace Hotel for some me: before she eventually received Permission to take It with her to the United States, Now both their efforts fade into Iinsignifeance with the Chinese re~ port of the capture by a woodcutter of two fairly adult Pandas, a male and a female, in the forests around Lifanting, a city a few kilometres north-west of Chengtu. Mrs. Hatkness's panda weighed a few ounces under 1b. when captured, Giant Pandas to be Bred in Szechuen Mountains Confirmation of the capture of two full-grown Giant Pandas, was brought" to Shanghai" by Mr. Henry Hollssen, Danish jour-alist, who has just returned fol-owing a trip to the Tibet border, through Szechuen and. North China, The pandas, were caught by trappers employed by Mr. Floyd 'T, (Ajax) Smith, the well known zoologist. The paw of one was lightly injured in the trap, but the animal is now reported to be 'AL present Kept in captivity in an upstairs room in the residence of Mr. Albertson of West China Union' University in Chengtu, they are to be removed shortly a preserve in the Szechuen mountains. Here Me. Smith, in whose possession they are, hopes to breed them in their natural surroundings.
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