Evening star., 1937-09-26
GROSVENORS END
TOUR OF ORIENT
President of National Geo.
graphic and Wife Trav-
eIed $4,000 Miles.

DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, president OF
the National Geographic Society, has
returned to the society's headquarters
here following 22.0oo-mile survey of
the Orient, during which he and Mrs.
Grosvenor travelled extensively in
both China and Japan preceding the
outbreak of hostilities.
Flying across the Pacific in one of
the new clipper ships of the Pan
American system, the Grosvenors
found they had the distinction of be-
ing the first married couple to make
the journey entirely by air from Ala
media Airport, Calf, to Hong Kong,
The last gap in the Pacific air route,
that between Manila, Philippine
Islands, and Hong Kong, was opened
to passenger service the week after
they arrived in Manila
One of the objectives of the jour-
ney was to give the National Geo.
graphic Society-U. S. Navy Eclipse
Expedition a send-off from Honolulu,
May 6. Weather conditions at San
Francisco. however, delayed the de-
parture of their plane and the Gros-
venors could not be present when the
U. S. Avocet sailed with the party of
scientists who successfully photo
graphed and observed the total eclipse
of June on Canton Island, in mid
Pacific.
Greeted at Hong Kong.
At Hong Kong. however, the Gros-
venors were greeted by DR.. G. Weld
man Croft. professor of Agriculture
at Lingnan University, China, and
leader of the National Geographic So
ciety-Lingnan University Expedition
into Northern Kwangsi Province.
At Shanghai the Grosvenors stayed
at the Cathay Hotel, where recently
an airplane bomb killed and injured
scores and partly wrecked the hotel.
At the time of their visit conditions
were quiet. There they were met by
their daughter, Mrs. Cabot Coville,
wife Of the Second Secretary of the
United States Embassy at Toxic.
Travelling by train from Shanghai
to Peiping, a brief halt was made at
Nanking. DR.. Grosvenor had an in
terview with DR.. Wang Chung Hui
minister of foreign affairs, and DR..
Hsu Mo, vice minister.
During their stay of two weeks at
Peiping the Grosvenors were the
guests Of the United States Ambassa-
dor to China and Mrs. Nelson Trusler
johnson, at the Embassy.
Saw Chou Kou Tien Cave.
The Johnsons took them to see
the excavations in the Chou Kou Tien
cave, 80 miles southwest of Peiping
where five skulls of the Peking man
had been found and from which a
sixth, the best, was recovered several
days after their visit.
DR. and Mrs. Grosvenor also jour-
neyed to the Mongolian border to see
China's most famous rock carving in
the Yunkang caves. They spent
night in temple on China's sacred
mountain, Taishan, to which Chinese
for 1000 years have been making an
nual pilgrimages.
A month was spent in Japan visit
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have a Summer home at Lake Chu-
zenji, and seeing some of the famed
beauty spots. While in Toxic DR..
Grosvenor related his experiences on
the flight from San Francisco to Hong
Kong to large meetings of the Pan
Pacific Club and also of the Ameri-
can Japan Society. He was presented
TO- each gathering by Prince Iyesato
Tokugawa, who for 80 years was presi-
dent of the House of Peers and is
uncle of Premier Konoye. Luncheons
In honor of the Grosvenors were given
by the United States Ambassador and
Mrs. Joseph c. Grew, and also by
the Foreign Vice Minister and Mrs.
Kensuke Horunouchi.
The return journey from Yokohama
was made by steamer, although the
Grosvenors did not come directly to
Washington. Landing at Vancouver,
B. c., they travelled overland through
Canada to their Summer home on
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.