Smyrna times., 1933-05-24
MONGOLIA HAS
RAIL SERVICE
Express Trains Now Connect
Reiping, PaotOw and
Other Points
MOD E r Nj ZING ASIA


land of the paradox and China is
the home of many contrasts which
even the headline hunter may miss.
'.At a time when foreigners are
leaving the scenes Of hostilities on
the Sino-Japanese front north Of
Peiping and European mail former
ly routed via the Trans-Siberian
railway is taking the long sea voy-
age through the Suez canal because
the Chinese postal administration
refuses to send mail through Man
choukuo, the Chinese government
railways are advertising an i'm
proved railway service, with sleep
ing and dining cars, over railway
line not far inside the battle 'front.'"
says DR.. Maynard owen Williams
in communication to the National
Geographical society.
=. Lasso Ponies With Pole Nooses.
1.-TWO express trains a week now
leave Peiping and run to Paotow in
Inner Mongolia. Not only does this
railway, started in 1905 and engi-
neered by a Yale graduate, connect
comfortable and colorful Peiping
with the Great Wall, the Ming
tombs, the desert-edge city of Kali
gan. highly productive mines of
some of the earth's finest coal, and
Fifth century Buddhist grottoes of
Yun-kang, but it carries one into
Inner Mongolia. In this little-known
Hand wild game can be shot from a
speeding motor car, Mongol herds
men lasso wild ponies with slip
nooses on long poles, and a recep-
ton for the Dalai Lama scatters
rainbow fragments made of silken
robes through a princely encamp-
ment, where permanent quarters
are reserved for distinguished for
eign guests. The Mongol chiefs
prefer to live in felt yurts. or tents.
'Paotow, present terminus Of the
de luxe railway service, is the hop
ping-off place for nomad life such
as the deepest recesses of the Sa-
hara no longer offer. Dangling
from a telephone post in the city
where railway meets camel cara
van, there may be a bandit head,
between whose lips some one with
a misplaced sense Of humor has
forced cigarette. to indicate that
even the desert is being made as
secure as possible for those who
seek thrills but want safety first.
"North of Paotow a fair motor
trail climbs to the bleak Mongolian
plateau where thousands of gazelles
can be seen at once and in whose
hills a wide variety Of horned game
awaits the hunter.
Here are several Catholic mis-
sion stations whose main contact
with the outside world comes when
a party Of huntsmen seek shelter
while enjoying some of the finest,
and least known. hunting in Asia.
Trans-Asiatic Expedition.
American motor cars more or
less regularly follow the Mongolian
trails and although communication
with Urga. because of political con-
ditions. is less common than for
merly, there are a score of interest
ing regions within easy reach of
Paotow or Kalgan.
''The Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asi-
attic expedition on its way from
Paotow to Kalgan. looped north
through Inner Mongolia, visited the
Lamaseries at Peilingmiao and
Sharamuren and passed Chinese
New Years day as guests of Prince
Hsi Ssu Nying at his desert camp
before descending on Kalgan over
a much-improved trail The road
from here to Peiping. by way of
the famous Nankow Pass. pierces
the Great Wall at one of its most
picturesque spots and has been
much improved within recent
months.
''Near the Mongolian threshold
TO Peiping is hitherto inaccessible
region now open to the adventuring
motorist. The tourist who seeks
unusual experiences can spend
week in surroundings unknown to
study. No early Buddhist grottoes
In Asia are as accessible as those
of Yun-kang. near which now pass
sleeping and dining cars from
whose luxury only a few hardy
travellers will absent themselves.
however much Buddhist carvings
enliyen old grottoes or Mongol
tribesmen spatter golden, purple or
red robes across the barren plateau
so familiar to the hordes Of Gen.
ghis Khan.
"'By sleeping car to the Middle
ages is true enough, but the from
tier of romance is beyond the Sleep
ing car, where the true lover of the
desert can sleep on the wind-swept
plateau undisturbed by an Ameri-
can-born iron horse"
Hen Helps Mother Dog
Care for Her Punniex