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would make it impossible for him to carry out his projected explora- 

 tion of the Han River valley. 



He therefore started north late in January, to try to visit the his- 

 torically and archeologically very important areas centering about the 

 Great Bend region of the Yellow River. He was permitted, by grace 

 of the military, to travel in an unheated baggage car. through rain 

 and sleet and snow, and on one occasion, when his train was caught 

 l)etween two hostile forces, he was for a time under somewhat heavy 

 fire, bullets passing through the car in which he was riding. 



It was at this time that events were shaping themselves for the 

 final push which resulted in the occupation of Peking by the National 

 Government, and Dr. Li, convinced after a thorough trial that field- 

 work for the time being was out of the question, returned to Peking 

 over the same circuitous route by which he had come. 



While he was unable to accomplish anything of importance in the 

 wav of field-work in this journey, the contacts which he established 

 with the new National Government for the promotion of scientific 

 research, particularlv in archeology, are of great importance and will 

 undoubtedlv be ]iroductive of much good in the near future. 



Dr. Li had been instructed, in the event of the civil war making 

 field-work impossible, to come to Washington. He arrived late in 

 May of the current year and spent a busy summer in preparing the 

 English version of his report, in visiting important centers of arche- 

 ological study in this country and in discussions with members of the 

 Smithsonian stafif and others interested in research in China. On 

 August 10. he sailed for Europe, and should at present writing have 

 returned to Peking after making further arrangements with the 

 Chinese Government at Nanking, the new capital, for cooperative 

 field-work. 



In the spring of 1927 excavations were undertaken in the Liaotung 

 Peninsula of Manchuria by Dr. K. Hamada of the Imperial University 

 of Kyoto. Japan. In these Mr. K. Z. Tung was invited to participate 

 as the representative of the Freer Gallery Expedition. He therefore 

 proceeded to the city of Dairen, wdiere he joined the party and went 

 to the proposed site, near by. It was successfully excavated, and much 

 of interest was found. A report will be published in due course by the 

 Kyoto Imperial University : but it may be stated here that Dr. Hamada 

 believes that the place was a port of call in early times for voyagers 

 between China and Korea. 



