Stinnes Daughter

Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow.

With her black setter Lord for company & guard, a Swedish camera man and two chauffeurs to drive her baggage truck, she had already last week driven her car 7,300 miles in 42 traveling days--from Constantinople, through Syria, Armenia and Persia, to Moscow. Europeans were amazed; Germans were proud besides.

Her objectives after Moscow, were Omsk, Tomsk, and Urga and then across Mongolia to Kilgan and Peking.

To a Russian journalist's deferential request for a farewell statement, she flippantly answered: "There are no roads after Nijni Novgorod [ancient commercial fair city] for the next 5,600 miles, but the tracks the peasants use are often better than the Russian roads and there are bridges over most of the rivers.

So I ought to make good time-- say 30 days to Urga--and if I am caught, that will be six months of Siberian exile, that is all."