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...seven maids with seven mops should sweep for endless years they could do little with the desert sands of Gobi. No ocean beats upon these sands; no sheiks beguile the tourist. In the heart of Mongolia in northern China the Gobi desert sprawls, 500,000 square miles of forgotten loneliness. Last week a distinguished German emerged from this loneliness and a U. S. expedition penetrated deeper into its mystery...
German. For two and a half years the German dug the brisk point of his intelligence into Gobi's secretive sand. Through the desert he trekked southward accompanied by obscure missionaries. When the sands of the desert grew cold in the mountain passes of Thibet, his feet chilled and hardened. Feet still half-frozen when he arrived at Leh, in northern India, he announced happily to the world that the scientific purpose of his wanderings (not stated) had been accomplished. He is Dr. Wilhelm Filchner...
...Asia. The domain of the early Tatar khans, in the Altai mountains of Thibet and the Gobi Desert, is now the archaeological province of General Peter K. Kozlov, Russian geographer and digger persistent. Twenty years ago he found the dead city of Khara-Khoto whose last khan, Hara-Tzyan-Tzyun, buried 80 carloads of silver in a profound well before being wiped out by an Imperial Chinese army in the 13th Century. Digger Kozlov frequently revisits the region for further data. His latest expedition set out from Moscow last spring...
Paleontologically speaking, the Gobi and Altai regions are the provinces of Digger Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History. His discoveries have strengthened the theory that Asia was the point of dispersal of Mammalia. Civic ructions impeded his work last year (TIME, April 26, 1926), but last spring he was off again to try and add evidence of humans to his unparalleled find of dinosaurs and their eggs, baluchitheria...
...Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists...