German East Africa – The Amazing Paulin(e) Family

Montreal Gazette, 27 February 1924 page 1

WE Cutler delayed

Will join East African Expedition later

By John MacCormac, special cable from the Gazette’s resident staff correspondent

London, February 26 – The British Museum expedition to German East Africa, which was to have sailed from London under the leadership of WE Cutler, of Manitoba University, has sailed without him. The dock strike was the cause and Cutler will instead sail from Marseilles on Thursday. The expedition will explore the fossil remains which were found by Germans in East Africa before the war and which include the largest dinosaur specimens yet unearthed. Cutler has had the unrivaled experience of collecting for the British Museum and other museums large dinosaurian and similar fossils in North America.

Westminster Gazette, 13 Feb 1924

IN search of the Dinosaur

Expedition to leave for Africa

Important discoveries are anticipated from an African Expedition which will leave the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, shortly, in search of the fossil remains of the dinosaur, a giant prehistoric animal, and human fossils, which may possibly be from half a million to a million years old.

The expedition will be led by Mr WE Cutler, of the University of Manitoba, who arrived in London yesterday.

In conversation with the Westminster Gazette yesterday, Mr Cutler explained that the dinosaur relics were unearthed by the Germans in what was then German East Africa, at a spot in Tendagaru, Taganyika Territory.

“The skeletons are of enormous size,” he said. “These reptiles were about 22 ft high and from 60 to 80 feet long, and it has been stated that the African specimens were even larger. They flourished from eight to ten million years ago.”

Tag: German East Africa

WE Cutler delayed in trip to East Africa, 1924