NEW YORK TO PARIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 90, 14 April 1908, Page 5

NEW YORK TO PARIS.

' 2KB GREAT MOTOR RACE. _gj__SKAN RUN EWMXNATED. (Received.B.29 a-m.) I. NEW YORK, April.l 3. Owm** to the thaw having set in- in ___ska rendering the snow fields impracticable that portion of the route, on the' <reat motor race from.New York to Paris has been eliminated, and instead of crossing--the-Behring Strait the ears-will proceed across the Pacific to Vladivostok', where the race will be resumed.

•[Five- cars- one American, two French, an Italian, and a German are competing in this great race, which is, , however, shorn of much of its interest by the alter r atiou of route, for it now. becomes little more than, a second edition of the Pekin •to Paris race, with a run across the United States by way-of preliminary. In this run the cars were greav-.y hampered by the bad -roads- and heavy snow storms, and a fortnight ago_it was feared that the. Alaskan, run would, not be made owing to the delayed run and an early thaw in. the norths Allegations were made by the foreign cars that after half the run had been completed the .Thomas car was put-into one of the company's factories and practically rebuilt and also that while every facility was given the Tho>n*as, obstacles-were placed in the way of. the foreigners by other, traffic The Thomas established a lead on the way to Chicago which ensured her victory in the first stage of the race, but the Italian Zust and the. French De Dion made a gallant struggle for second place.]