Yellow Cruising
The Yellow Croisière (April 4th 1931 - February 12th 1932) is a long-distance car trek organized by André Citroen.
Vis-a-vis the positive repercussions of the black Cruising, since 1928, Georges-Marie Haardt prepares her project to open the “Silk route” with the motor vehicle traffic: 30.000 km of Beirut to Beijing while passing by the Turkestan, the Xinjiang and the desert of Gobi. The official name of forwarding is Mission Center-Asia and the route of return envisaged towards Beirut passes by Hanoï, Saigon, Bangkok, Calcutta, Delhi, Quetta, Ispahan, Baghdad and Damas.
Political uncertainties in the USSR and Afghanistan involve the persons in charge of forwarding (Haardt, Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and Victor Point) to change route and oblige them to cross the Cachemire to 5 000 m of altitude.
Two groups are made up: the group “Pamir” on the basis of Beirut and groups it “China” on the basis of Tianjin must be found with the Xinjiang.
The group “Pamir” (24 people, 6 caterpillar tractors Citroen P17 equipped with the system Kégresse-Hinstin reached Aksou on October 8th, 1931. It finds there the group “China” to which joined the father Teilhard of Chardin. The two groups then take the direction of Beijing which they join only on February 12th, 1932 after having crossed with multiple difficulties SinKiang in war.
Haardt, embanked by the influenza, dies in HongKong on March 15th, 1932 of a double pneumonia.
This forwarding was illustrated by a serial: the Bell Tibetan .
Members of forwarding
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