LAND ROUTE.
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BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT London, May 31. A new land route from tho Mediterranean to Baghdad and India has been blazed by trial trips across the Syrian desert in motor cars. Mr Norman Mairn, an ex-New Zealand officer, a member of the Mairn Transport Company, participated. Ho explains that it is proposed to inaugurate a mail and passenger service early in the autumn. Instead of travellers proceeding to Bagdad via Port Said, Basra and Bombay, a sixteen or seventeen days’ journey, the new service brings Bagdad within 60 hours of the Mediterranean, and mails from London to Bagdad will be delivered in eight days.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 2 June 1923, Page 9
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110LAND ROUTE. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 2 June 1923, Page 9
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