THE GARAVAN ROUTES
MOTORS REPLACE CAMELS. NEW ZEALAND ENTERPRISE. LONDON, September 5. By putting limousines on the oldest caravan routes in the world two living New Zealanders have eclipsed Macaulay’s New' Zealander in picturesque ness. They are the Naim brothers, who went to Syria during tho war. It struck them that transport there was not all it might be.. They decided to show tho camels what machines could do. First, they had an unlucky experience with steam cars. But they got over that and established a motor mail service from Beirut, Syria, to Haifa, on the Palestine coast. More romantic still, they revived the old caravan route from Damascus to Bagdad, replacing camels with limousines. Norman —one of the pair—surveyed the Jerusalem-Bagdad mute, which will connect Bagdad with Europe in the event of trouble in Syria. Nairn oars were attacked last week by rebels, who wounded a woman and two men.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19584, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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