CROSSED GOBI DESERT
remarkable journey ACROSS ASIA BRITISH OFFICER AND WIFE British OffUstcl Wireless Reed. noon. RUGBY, Wednesday. Major Duncan McCallum, of the Legation guard in Peking, accompanied 3 y his wife, reached Loudon yesterday Mter a remarkable 15,000-mile motor Wurney from Peking. They traversed Asia, including the Gobi desert, which had been couriered impassable, and altogether beaaed through 20 countries. They never had occasion to sleep Jb the open, and always found a roof , cover them, even in most unlikely »l&ces. Thetr chief tribulation was the weaber. The journey began in the wet •cason, and apart from the end they ad almost continuous rain, nevertheless, they succeeded in colliding invaluable data about roads Tv rto consi dered impassable. The journey took 11 months to comFT*- Major McCallum haying dejed his furlough to it. **• *• due back in Peking in August.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 368, 31 May 1928, Page 9
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140CROSSED GOBI DESERT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 368, 31 May 1928, Page 9
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