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Dec. 31 - 1941
Pandas Arrive--China's Gift to U.S. Children

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L. to r.: Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society; John Tee-Van, who brought pandas here; Dr. Tsune-chi Yu, Chinest Consul General; Mme. Tsien Tai, wife of former Chinese Ambassador to Belgium; and Miss Lee Ya Cheng, a Chinese flier.

THE TWO baby giant pandas presented to the children of the United States as a token of war relief appreciation by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and other Chinese leaders, were moved into their new home, a Tibetan habitat in the Bronx Zoo, yesterday. The pandas came to New York from the Coast in a [[obscured by fold in paper]] heated baggage ca [[obscured by fold in paper]]