SAHARA CONQUERED

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 90, 11 January 1924, Page 7

SAHARA CONQUERED

SIX-DAY JOURNEY FOR WHEELED VEHICLES PRACTICABLE ROUTE FOUND By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. . London, January 9. llio Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean to the Niger is now traversible in a direct line by any wheeled vehicles of average power in five or six days. “This,” savs tbs Paris correspondent of “The Times,” “is the conclusion reached by the experience of a French mission organised in November of last year, with the object of discovering the shortest route across the desert. The mission, with four caterpillar cars, left Colomb-Bechar on November 9, 1923, and travelled directly South to Adran and Ouallen and thence to Tessalit and on to Burem on the huger. It returned without difficulty through the Valley of Saoura and Beni Abbes to Colomb, which it reached on December 22. “The route followed is declared accessible not only to caterpillar cars but bv all wheeled vehicles as far as Tessalit. FromTessalit to Burem the roads are more difficult. Regular mo-tor-car services, therefore, are considered practicable from Algiers to the Niger. One is contemplated which, on tho outward journey passing by Biskra and Insalah and returning by Adrar and Colomb. affords extensive views ol the Great Sahara.”—“The Times.”