MOTORING TOUR
AGSOaS ASIA. BSRTLES’ EXPERIENCES. CHRISTMAS IN HOSPITAL. “ (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p'.m.) CALCUTTA, January 9. - Frank Birtles, the Australian motorist, has arrived here after an exciting trans-Asian tour. Among other experiences, while sheltering from a blinding Snowstorm, brigands robbed him of liis blankets. Leaving Teheran, he found a. marooned car, in which were seven Persians frozen to death as a result of Hardships. (Birtles spent Christmas Day in hospital at Quetta, and reached Delhi on. the same set of wheels as he started on. -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 76, 10 January 1928, Page 5
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