Word: caravaneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forced to carry most of its food supply and a good deal of equipment, amounting in all to about six tons, the group will take a native staff of 25 caravan drivers for the 100 horses and 20 yaks. In Tibet they will find only a few mountain sheep, some edible wild asses, and perhaps some fish...
Francis S. Onderdonk, ardent anti-Nazi and extreme pacifist, will bring his "Peace Caravan" to Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight, presenting his talking motion picture entitled the "Next War", as well as three short silent films...
...films are being brought to Harvard by Dr. Onderdonk, a former instructor in architecture at the University of Michigan, who has equipped an automobile with all the apparatus necessary for showing the pictures and is now touring the country with his outfit, which he terms "Peace Caravan...
...comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner, her mother sees to it that they go in different directions. But luckily for the caravan, Emmet rejoins them later, guides them on their terrible journey through the mountains. In a hopeless attempt to save some who have been left behind. Emmet is frozen to death. Though Celeste makes no secret of the fact that she is carrying his child, her mother is reconciled: her trip...
...raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...