A STRENUOUS JOURNEY
An adventurous journey has recently been successfully completed by two army officers—Major Sinclair aud Captain Colman —who decided to drive home from India in an English light car, a distance of 7000 miles. The journey involved the negotiation of the Afghan Pass and the crossing of the Syrian Desert. Some of.the worst country was encountered from Duzdab. just inside Persian territory. For a distance of some 300 miles the country was a sequence of stony plain covered with patches of scrub, rocky watercourses and sandy river beds, all of which the car had to take in its stride. Arriving at Damascus the really strenuous portion of the journey was over, and the remainder of the trip through Europe to London was voted by Major Sinclair to be “without incident.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 8
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132A STRENUOUS JOURNEY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 8
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