GOOD PROGRESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19793, 17 March 1927, Page 5

GOOD PROGRESS

WORLD TOURISTS ACROSS THE GLOBE BY CAB LONDON, March 15. Advices from Constantinople show that the motorists Ellis and Birtles are the first to get a car through from London during winter time. Officials were surprised at their success. It had been regarded as virtually impossible to negotiate the deep mud of Thrace and the snowdrifts in tho notorious Dragoman Pass, especially us tho men were travelling in one of tho worst weeks Europe has experienced this winter. They had to risk the car on the frozen rivers Several times without knowledge of tho depth they would have to fall if tho ice broke. Tho actual running time to Constantinople was sixteen and a-half days, which is believed to be a. record for any time of the year. It is considered that there is a good chance of clipping off a few days from the best London to Quetta time, which at present is 80 days. Tho negotiation of snow mountains and roadless swamps is not tho only part of tho adventure. Rigid Customs regulations on scores of borders e,ntail long inquisitions by officialdom and language difficulties have to bo overcome. Many of those responsible for delays display the utmost courtesy in those centres where there are British Consular representatives.