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Mr. Sun, a Cantonese, had been worsted last month by the intrigues of General Chiang (TIME, Feb. i), but "China's Verdun" magically restored Cantonese Sun's prestige and the prestige of his "Cantonese Government." General Chiang, once a sensational leader of armies but now a practicer of nonresistance toward...
This French expedition, backed by Motorman Andre Citroen, led by Explorer Georges-Marie Haardt, was headed for Peiping, China, 8,000 miles away. Before it lay deserts, wastelands, mountains no motor car, few men, had ever climbed. That was why, instead of rear wheels, the cars had tractor bands, why...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan...
Last week, tired and jaded, Explorer Haardt and his 27 men had done with mountains, deserts and bandits for a while. Last obstacle had been the theft by Mongolian bandits of tractor bands for the cars. On worn bands the cars carried the party to clean clothes, bath tubs, decorations...
Abandoned also was the Manhattan office of International Sleeping Car Co. (Cie Internationale des Wagons Lits et des Grands Express Eurapecas), famed from Peiping to Paris as the operator of pullman and restaurant cars.