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...fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until Jayne is disposed of in the care of Dr. Kao, "full of Christianity and antiseptics." This leaves Mr. Warner free but lonely to make his scheduled dash to Tun Huang, the second objective of his journey, where lie the caves of the Thousand Buddhas. The aspect of these ancient gods fills Mr. Werner with poetic reverence. However, "obviously, some specimens of these paintings must be secured for study at home, and, more important still, for safekeeping against further vandalism...
Pushing on, they reached the western boundary of Kaasu Province some eighty miles from the Turkestan border. There they had hoped to spend some months studying and making complete photographic records of the wall paintings in the Tun Huang grottoes. News from the coast, however, arrived at about that time that the strikes and shootings in Shanghai had resulted in what amounted to a general and anti-foreign sentiment. This was felt even in the remote west and the Harvard party were not permitted to take up their residence at the Tun Huang oasis or to make the necessary photographs...
...Daniel V. Thompson '22, also of the division of Fine Arts, were assisting in their various capacities. Langdon Warner '03, of the Fogg Museum had been delayed in Peking on other business for the college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne and Priest continued west to Urumchi the capital of Chinese Turkestan, where, after some delay, they received the Russians' permission to strike to the northwest and take the trans-Siberian Railroad to Peking...
...Pennsylvania Museum, Mr. Alan R. Priest, '20, Horace p. Steinson '22, and R. F. Starr sailed from Vancouver on December 19, 1924. In China Mr. Daniel v. Thompson '22, and Mr. Allan Clark, the American sculptor, also joined the party. The expedition reached its objective the caves of Tun Huang, but owing to the unsettled conditions in China it was not possible to work in the Caves or to procure the photographic record which was hoped for. The members of the expedition were allowed to go under guard to the caves on three days only. Mr. Jayne, was the leader...
...Some of the acquisitions made on the first expedition to China have arrived this year. Notable among them is a painting on silk of the Tang Dynasty, which is thought to have come originally from the great Tun Huang Library, long sealed and low removed for the most part to London, Paris, and Calcutta Most of the object secured by the second expedition have not arrived. They include a few fresco fragments of different periods and an early wooden statue of historical importance...