CANDLE OF LIFE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 November 1925, Page 9

CANDLE OF LIFE

IN GOBI DESERT.

AN EXPLORER’S THEORY.

INTERESTING DISOOVERTES

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received Nov. 5, 12.35 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO 1 , Nov. 4.

Roy Chapman Andrews, returning with the American Museum of Natural History’s third expedition into the depths" of Mangolia and the Gobi desert, declared: “We have received confirmation, for the first time, ot our theory that all life originated and thrived oil the Asiatic plateau, which is now the Gobi desert. We iountl traces of human beings, who lived twenty thousand years ago. These people migrated to other parts of the world, but the cradle of life was there. I believe they are related to the American Indians. lam convinced that the land bridge once connected Asia with North America and a great sea extended in. Paleozoic time through the entire central Asian plateau from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The- expedition's numerous discoveries included twenty-seven fossilised jaw bones, all together in one spot, a fossilised skull of a. two-horned beast, probably millions of years old, and forty eggs of the prehistoric dinosaur, more than ten million years old. _ The expedition covered approximately five thousand miles, two thousand miles of the route traversing unmapped territory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.