Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-29
Geographic News
Bulletins By the
National Geographic Society
RUssLA,s LISTENING POST

Continual reports from Moscow
| that the Soviet Government is seek
| ing to become a leader of Asiatic
, peoples, and her recent evidences CT
| friendliness toward the Turks,
arouse interest in Ferghana, the
| country which was the Russian EN-
pire's deepest southeastern wedge
! driven into Asia. A bulletin from
! the Washington, d. c.. headquaf-
tiers of the National Geographic So
| ciety deals with this country OF
| deserts and GASES, towering noun
| tains and picturesque valleys, where
the territories of Russian, Chinese
and Briton almost meet.
"Eerebana- formerly Kokan. has
numerors bids to fame" saws the
buIietin "brt among them two
sand ont. IIs nor.n.rn yaIIeys con-
stitI,ted the heart of Russia's cotton
nroducing country. and its borders
south and east marked the terminal
/ moraine. SO to speak. of the great
SIav glacier which had moved slow
Iy down through Asia, bringing ITS
| deposit of Russian dominion and
culture. until it hung over both In
dia and China.
Is a Russian Kashmir
.s1,hs soutberr nortior NJ Fere-
bana ;s a sort of Russiar Kasbmiy
81 h,ob n,atsa,s and tow,
arinv nasts dean vaiievs nictnres-
o1,a vs1es and sparkiing ,akes n
is in tact the ravarse 70 Kashmir,s
ohvarsa for II Iias i,,st aver tbs
mountain divide frons thai better
Lnnurn sa,onnn 80. -, hna"~v.
so close that a TitanSor a bie
Hertha~mjrh h,,rI u missile from
Russian to British territorv Oniv
a barrow strip of Afehan land. re-
served because of the long feaIousv
ana dinIomafic STRUGGLE between
Britain and the old Russian Emnire.
lies wee In places IL is as na,-
row as twenty miles.
ssThis southern nortion NJ Fery-
hama is the Pamir roof ~ h
world, Once Russia AnaIIv eot nos
sasaiop of II in 1898. she drew evan
fighter about It the cloak of secrecy
that nature had all along maintain
cd II heca,ne g~eneraIlv known that
excellent military roads were reach
ing ont from northern Ferghana
th1o,1ph gorgas ana over LOFTY
nasses into the Paruir. over which
ertilIerv couId he taken 10 the yery
nsrson. otbar thar TRUSTED in1perial-
ISIS were permitted TO raVefSe these
natbs wbich Russian dreamers
poned would some dav lead their
ananire sti1I farther south
Nortber, Eerpbana FERTILE
oWbiIa The uther end of Ferg-
hona is q country Of y,,eee6 moun-
tains and nIateaus. the fertile val
ievs of it's northern end constitute
Central Asian t,deu
riIls and rivers. ALWAYS fullest in the
warm growing season. were led out
over fertiIe mains until thew died in
tbe sands. hut in the diving thcy
made northern Ferghana a garden
snot of Grains and fruits. and after
The Russians came. of precious cots
ron h cotton produced in III Sc
and neiehhorine T1rkestan GASES
hafora the World War. was greater
tban that Of India NJ Eerypt and
states
an Ferehana ana ;ts neiehboring
countries of Central Asia there was
nndonbtedly !. very early develop
ment Of civilization. even though
thew NAV NOT have been. as some
students nave asserted. the Grad 9
Of the human race. And probably
there the art of irrigation was prac
ticed as earlv as snvwhere in the
worIdS
MANY Times Oyerrup
T,ike all other reeions IF Central
Asia Ferehana felt the heel of
Gheneis Kahn and TamerIane' It
was oyerr,,n foo from Chinese Turk
estar which lies against n to the
esst VIXEN Mohammedanism rose
10 newer n was connnered nv the
Arabs and it's people have since
haen followers of The pronbet
"Russian dominican came SLOWLY
tn then the Khansta of
Kokan Alter tha more western
nort;ons 1T the Trans-Casnian re-
Zion and Turkestan had fallen
Pussi,n arnos GnaII-- oonorarad tba