LONG BICYCLE TOUR
NEARLY 20,000 MILES. ACROSS ABOUT FIFTY STATES. CALCUTTA, November 9. A young Swede, named Amrid, arrived in Calcutta to-day after having traversed 19,000 miles from Sweden to India on an ordinary bicycle. He was twice imprisoned during his journey, once by the Riffs and once in Turkey. ’He travelled through forty-seven countries, including India,'which he considers the most expensive he has visited. Amrid proposes to continue the journey to Burma and the Far East, and then to cross America. Tho bicycle is of Swedish make. The rider began the tour in April, 1925. The average distance covered was about sixty miles daily.
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Evening Star, Issue 19412, 22 November 1926, Page 1
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