POLITICS AND SCIENC
GERMAN EXPEDITION TO TIBET LONDON, April 19. The Daily Telegraphs Berlin correspondent says tnat the expedition which, judging by its composition is intended to combine politics with science, will go to India from Genoa on April 21 to explore ‘still almost unknown areas in the Eastern Himalayas and the southern watercourses of Tibet. ’ The leader is Dr. Ernst Schoessler, group leader of the Biacn Guards, the second in command being Dr. Karl Wienert, undergroup leader. The assistants consist of an anthropologist, geographist, and entomologist. The expedition is expected to last for two years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 21 April 1938, Page 7
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