WOMEN'S STAMINA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 7 October 1936, Page 7

WOMEN'S STAMINA.

Remarkable Motor Test in Soviet Russia. 6263 MILES IN TWO MONTHS. (Received 2 p.m.) MOSCOW, October 0. A band of 45 women have just completed a gruelling two months' automobile expedition across Soviet Russia, designed to test tlieir stamina. They covered 0203 miles in 45 days' actual driving. The ears, which were manufactured in Russia, averaged 139 miles a day. The route lay through seven republics of the Soviet Union, and the drivers met every type of weather. They traversed camel trails in Kazakstan, footpaths and salt marshes in Little Kara-Kum and the mountain ridges of the L T rals. C The party's leader was 31-year-old Anastasiya Petrovna Volkova, chauffeur to the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route in Moscow. Women mechanics, engineers, doctors, journalist*, and cinematographers comprised the rest of the party. "Our run should show what the Soviet woman is able to accomplish," Anastasiya Petrovna stated in an interview before leaving Moscow. "It should show that she is courageous and daring, that she can perfect herself in her profession, and that she can study and achieve great and beautiful aims."