MOTOR RACING
THRILLS IN EUROPEAN RALLY
hair-raisin g adventures
(United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph- Copyright.)
(Received this day at 2.15 p.m.) MONTE CARLO, January 23.
The car rally is providing hairraising adventures. One driver, falling asleep, crashed over a precipice, but was uninjured,, although his cai was smashed. Another from Palermo encountered a snowstorm in the Appeninos, a sandstorm in Austria, and then extreme cold.
A Briton driving from Linen, in the Arctic Circle, saw eight cars upside down near the German frontier. Another crashed into a motor lorry after a .gale had swept away the windscreen.
Cathcart Jones driving from Stavnner, was the first arrival. The rally is described 'ns being more •strenuous, than the Melbourne air race.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1935, Page 6
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