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Last week the first tonic shipments in three months reached Kunming, upper terminus of the Burma Road. Reports differed as to how steadily the shipments would flow. The Japanese claimed hits on a vital bridge over the Mekong River; the Chinese said that no hits had registered and that new, giant ten-wheel trailer trucks were carrying the stuff of war into China faster than ever. But whatever the rate of future shipments, last week's token arrivals were worth their weight in dead Japanese...
...ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later the mighty Mekong...
...book relates in non-scientific terms the adventures of these two expeditions to Southeastern Asia in 1928-29 on behalf of the Field Museum of Chicago. With the Coolidge party starting from China and the Roosevelt group from the Tibetan border, the original plan was to meet on the Mekong River, but the swift rapids in the Mckong and a lack of time prevented this meeting until the end of the expedition. One tragic incident marred the otherwise complete success of the trip. This was the death of R. W. Hendee from malaria when he was on his way from...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat...
...world many times, killing lions, tigers and hippopotami. I will kill your enemies just as willingly." He was forced by Germany and Austria to withdraw his offer. In the war he "offered his sword " to the Allies in turn, but without success. He even offered his steam yacht, the Mekong, to the French Government, but they refused it; the British Navy, however, accepted it. He turned his residence, the Château de Randan, into a hospital for wounded soldiers...