China’s Unknown Peaks Explored
CANTON, China. What is claimed to be the first attempt to map one of tlio highest mountain ranges in China is being made by the Szechuan-Tibet expedition organised by the Sun Yat-sen University heic. The expedition, which is , under the leadership of Arnold Heim, German natural scientist, and Karl KrejehGmf, has made its headquarters at K angling, capital of Szechuan, and is surveying the ranges which stretch 000 miles westward to Batang. _ The ranges in places attain an elevation of SOOO metres, large tracts of them being entirely unknown to the civilised world, and it is believed that some of the scenic wonders of the world may be found there. Other members of the expedition are : Prof. E. Imlot, director of the Cartographical Institute of Zurich Technical College; Mr. Nabolz, a Swiss engineer; Lee Chengsan, Li Yo-tsai and Hsu Shui-ling, three young Chinese geologists.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6519, 7 April 1931, Page 9
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