"MISSING LINK" IN CHINA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 7 January 1927, Page 2

"MISSING LINK" IN CHINA

EXPEDITION TO THE GOBI DESERT.

Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, of the American Museum of Natural History, is shortly embarking upon an expedition to Central Asia from which important; scientific discoveries are confidently expected to result. Mr? Chapman says he is hopeful of finding the "missing link,'; with which evolntioni§fs look'lorwfird to settling at once' the'argunieht'of the fundamentalists) who stated their case at the Morikeyvillo Trial. Mr. Andrews thinks it possible: that remains' might be fbuncf midway between man and the ape somewhere in the Gobi Desert —that great Asiatic wasjg spread between Siberia and China.

It was an expedition under Mr. Roy Andrews that two years ago discovered dinosaur eggs estimated to he 'ten million years old, in the region of the Gobi Desert. Mr. Andrews jg convinced that many <.f the greatest " secrets ' pi anthropology are'waiting to be lapped in the Gobi country, and he recently set sail for China with a large expedition party on the way to tha Gobi. But on arrival in. China it was found that the state of war in that country would interfere too much with the progress of the expedition, so the party returnovl in San Francisco, and will set off again next vear.

100,000 YEARS OLD

Previous operations in the Gobi, declared Mr. Andrews, have revealed bones only 2000 or 3000 years old, but implements which, on the other hand, indicate a civilisation dating back 100,000 years. With knowledge gleaned in recent investigations' and excavations, he expects to discover the cradle of civilisation, the earliest ancestors of tho presant stock, who may possibly be a million years old. Mr. Andrews received information in Peking of the buried cities in Mongolia which* had been known to ho covered over by sand for thousands of years. He hopes to uncover some of "those ruins, and excavate, as well, relics of the ancient Chinese civilisation.