Show Jt- Jt ds EXPLORERS FIND SITE OF 1 11 ANCIENT CITY IN CHINA H Was Destroyed by bythe bythe the First Emperor Two Thousand Thousand Thousand Thou Thou- sand Years Ago 1 Peking China The China The remains of ot an r Chinese city tho the walls of ot which before It was destroyed by Chi Chi- iL jia's jias as a's first emperor more than two thousand years ago seemingly JI ore territory than is within the spa- spa sous walls walla of ot Peking lies beneath or four feet of ot earth eurth about fifty y Mlles south of ot Pelting Peking awaiting the writes the Japan Adver- Adver Iser Carl Bishop now In China for the Smithsonian Institution is Interested c Cn n the long long burled buried city and It is likely ii hat he ho and his assistant A. A G. G Wen Wen- Rf jt juey ey y will pr pry into the mysteries of the tho tile known history and culture of at hina during the tho ancient Shang an and andow d ow dynasties 4 About one hundred d lL year a after atter AlexI Alex Alex- I ander the Great conquered E Egypt pt or late In the Second century B B. B DO C. C there arose a king in the then comparatively small China who compared favorably with Alexander In conquests and empire empire empire em em- pire building and whose empire lasted almost until the tho present day This was Shih Huang or Shih Huang- Huang tI tl The eThe First Emperor whose whoso rule role ending In B. B C. C marks the close of ot the feudal period and the he beginning o of the empire In Chinese history Shih tl nuang-tl ti subdued the feudal princes built the fumed famed great Chinese wall and successfully defended the countr country against the Tartars from the north standardized mone money transportation tion writing and other things which aided centralization and und destroyed as much of ot the ancient classics and traditions tra tru- as possible with the idea Iden that the tho history of ot the Chinese empire should begin with his reign Amon Among the feudal kingdoms which Shih Huang U U ti subdued wax was tha that of ot Yen the capital city of ot which Yen Yen- ching was about eighty miles mUes south of the modern Peking PokIng Shih Huang Huang- tl's Us capital was In the present provi re provi-re ee e near the tho modern city of un and 1 the Kingdom of Yen W was S originally an outlying principality In In- trusted with guarding the country from the fierce Tartar tribes that existed even before the primitive predecessors of ot the tho Invaded the historic valley Thought Scientists Sought Gold The lava lava-cov lava covered red ph plain ln known as the Pedregal or Stony Place Is 1 15 miles In length and ond about three miles mUes wide It has long been a n refuge for revolutionists revolution revolution- and criminals When Doctor Cummings and Dr Manuel Mnnuel director director di di- rector of ot anthropology in the bureau of ot agriculture and public works In Mexico were doing preliminary work they found that t th the natives were surreptitiously surreptitiously sur sur- digging too in the belief bellet that hidden treasure was concealed there The expedition leader will begin work ear early In June with the aid of ot three assistants and peon laborers provided by the Mexican government Nelson II n. Darton of the United States geological survey will Join tho the party later to make a special study of the lava flow and thus determine the precise precIse precise pre pre- cise age of tho the ruins |