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...Manhattan, two wanderlustful spinsters, Helen Calista Wilson and Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell, last week told newsgatherers how they had tramped 7,600 mi. from "Siberia to Turkestan" equipped with...
Describing his recent ejection from Russia, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them...
From remote, barbaric Alma Alta, on the distent rim of Russian Turkestan, Great Leo Davidovich Trotsky returned, last week, toward the civilized world. With him traveled his wife and son, glad to end a bitter exile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But in European Communist centres it was feared that Trotsky's release from banishment was a trick and prophets croaked that he would be "accidentally" killed en route...
Personally, I have led in Wob-Wog a French, archaeological expedition to Chinese Turkestan, which has yielded, I believe, important finds from the double point of view of philology and a archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple...
...another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had even received one of these manscripts, a Buddhist scroll of the eighth century, from Duke Lan, a cousin of the Chinese Emperor, against whom I had fought at the time of the siege of the Peking Legation in 1900, but who had since become my friend. Of course I was eager...