The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-02-01
American
from
Asia and Describes
His Journeys

Paris Jan. 30.--Oscar L. Crosb. the
American explorer, has returned TO
! Paris from a trip to central Asia.
where he explored parts of Turkistan
! and Thibet never before visited bv a
white man On his way to Thibet
Mr. Crosby skirted Afghanistan. vis-
/ itod Chinese Turkestan. and later tra-
yersed Kashmir and the Karakorum
! route, PROBABLY one OF the most dim
! cult used by human beings. to India.
China Threatened.
( His Investigation developed that
| China was threatened from another
direction. by her rear door. and that an
! advance oy Russia and Great Britain
in this direction may become as inn
! portant in its possible results TO the
United States as a movement oil the
European powers from the sea.
Mr. Crosby said
Left Last May
81 left The United states last Nav.
stopping at ST. Petersburg. 10 obtain
permission TO pass through Russian
Turkestan The Russian authorities
We're courteous and gave me a letter
of introduction to General Brovoski
Russian consul at Kashgar in Chi
nese lurkestan. I took the trans-Cas-
plan road TO Andijan and it's terminus
meeting on the way there Captain An
ginour of the French army. who
went with me for some way.
From there we went by caravan to
kashgar, Chinese Turkestan.
Started for Thibet.
AT this point the caravan was re-
organized and started for Thibet
passing through Yarkand and Kotan.
and eventually arriving at Polu. at the
base of the Kuenlun mountains. Here
we began to ascend the Thibetan plat
eau elevations ranging from $4,000 to
$4,000 feet high. We travelled at this
height for eight weeks. suffering from
the rarified air and the cold.
"As we could only carry supplies
for twenty days, we endeayored to take
Rudek in Thibet, whence we intended
to strike toward L'Hassa. Unfortun-
ately | lost my chronometer and nau-
tical calendar and was unable to take
observations We consequently took
amore southerly course than desired
IT was impossible to correct the mis-
take because the county was trackless
and uninhabited for hundreds of miles.
Unexpored Region.
we could find no openings in the
mountains TO Rudek. but crossed an
unexplored region known as the White
Desert. Our horses died RAPIDLY and
we had but a few days supplies left
when two Of our most trusted men
were sent on the last animals able to
travel, in search OF aid They rode
one hundred miles before they found
anyone. AT the end of III days our
two men returned with provisions The
natives refused to so into Thibet. so
there was nothing TO do except ae-
company them TO an inhabited region
known as Little Thibet, which forms
part of British Kashmir
Studied Past and Present.
My purpose in visiting Central AS
Ia was TO study the past and present
race questions connected with that
region, / did not believe II possible
to reach L'Hassa except by force or in
disguise, and therefore purposed mere
ly to 80 as far as / could.
"Ihe British expedition under Col.
Younghusband viii be able to enter
L'Hassa The Thibetans cannot re-
sist Those ! saw were mild and
peaceful people, governed by priests.
who so far as we knew. do not incul-
cate them with the military spirit
which is contrary TO the precepts of
Buddhism aud Lamaism The result !
of the expedition will be some form Of
British control.
Russia not in Way.
Russia Is doing nothing TO prevent /
It's success. and l do not think any
thing can be done. / do not believe |
Russia seriously cOntemplates acquir- /
ing that country, for If a national /
frontier ever existed to their empire |
II certainly lies north of the vast des- /
erts aad tremendous mountains which /
must be crossed before Inhabited Thi- /
bet can be reached Russia can stand |
British control of Thibet because she |
will take Chinese Turkestan as a set /
or
Discouraged Crosby.
Consul General PretoyOsky while /
to us, seemed to discourage i
the appearance of any others than |
Russians and Chinese in Turkestan. \
taking the grOund that the question I
of Chinese Turkestan is OF no import I
ance to the world at large and that it |
only Russia and India
The Importance OF the question lies I
In the fact that the taking of the ter |
ritory of Thibet which Is under Chi I
nest suzerainty, Will be dismembering !
China. The object of the British IS
TO make II impossible for the Rms
slams to establish themselves In Thihes I
and 10 do this effectively they viii |
have TO institute some kind Of control. \
United States is Interested.
Nevertheless. the United States (
which IS interested must turn her at /
tentlon 20 the back Of the empire an1 /
keep an eye there while watching the |
sea coast
with respect to Afghanistan, both !
the Russians and the British recog- !
nize its value as a buffer state an do I
not desire 10 disturb this situation. 1
though each fears the other may get In /
The ascendency above the Amer"
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