REMAINS OF A MONSTER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 4

REMAINS OF A MONSTER.

AN EXPLORER’S FIND. DETAINED BY THE CHINESE. When the American Central Asiastic Expedition, headed by Air. Roy Chapman Andrews, returned to Peking in the middle of August from inner Mongolia, it left behind at Kalgan, on the Chinese-Mongo-lian frontier, 85 cases of fossil specimens, including what is believed to \be the remains of the largest mammal that was ever in existence.

Tre specimens were to have been , taken down by rail, but owing to an agitation started by a group of Chinese styling themselves “the Society for the Preservation of Cultural Objects,” who alleged that the cases contained ancient Chinese treasures which Mr. Andrews yas trying* to steal, the Nationalist authorities refused permission for the transportation of the eases pending investigation. Mr. Andrews took up the matter with the American Legation, through whom official permission to make the trip was secured and subsequently he announced that, after many weeks’ somewhat vexatious negotiation, the matter had been satisfactorily settled. The cases were to be taken to Peking and lodged at the Rockefeller Foundation Hospital, where experts nominated by the society would examine them. If Mr. Andrews’ contention that they contain only fos- , sils was proved to be correct they would be handed over to him without further delay. Mr. Andrews indicated thjit he ,was quite happy about this arrangement, as the eases contained nothing more than fossils embedded in rock, and perhaps not more than a dozen experts in the world were capable of doing anything with .them. The archaeological material discovered by the expedition was ( shipped to America weeks ago.