Show 1 6 ACROSS HAlf ORlD IN N A iREAT Of 1 S 6 wastes of Mongolia ii te racing from Peking Mia a race for money or or dous 1 journey nearly world but ut one for be bo death I Jias s ever dared to go o trod before in Northern China There but mountain e travel avel of centuries centuries- t filled in by storms torms of IB 0 thy are made who who man the autos are And they are knees of an automobile lland Liland with roads like a Minces ances of a collision or Iding time much more Imo mountains and ford ford- have have traversed a great at atI I only crossed by camels ans tans twice a week with and water prea pre- pre vance rance a e. e They found no no tire tir a agents tires after the trouble They went prepared brigands ands and convicts ls and sava savage e nomads fa as a d devil devil- troyed stroy-ed to save them rere were like the roads of might be made in ft f th tha winner winner and and lance tance that there wont won't makes makes the la Ia lays s he will be r morth while i in a joke ct d in in all seriousness Scaring persons persons all all bole twenty four ma- ma entered But Butto t to start only five had bad badII I. I II c a good bye to Pe- Pe tooting a welcome later I i was laid out ut first first first- n lia Siberia Russia hl Inand nd France Then op ons it was decided to pm Peking instead of was iwas presently learned of th the route f v pry ry start start start-in in fact d almost alm st insuperable I d ba contestants after who had been Mongolian n fast- fast o the eX excitement arace But five said t athey they hav have stuck m ing g from Peking has ha dint at Kalgan leads across the of miles of ip bbl s not sand to eave Mon Mongolia olia be be- teave the crow flies the dis dis- iberia is miles biles 4 s must make Z re The rest is com com- fh h road will follow berian railway through iTo and Omak Ka Ka- rod trod Moscow Warsaw on through Germany 0 France rance and Paris ari aris- aris r algan h lia e reached Kalgan power And AndI I jiin he wilds far from nothing but a slender Between tween them and the ad preparations were jp gt even the bi biggest jest lT rry gasoline and tires tiresa a long distance So SoI I ahead laden with pe- pe desert wastes for Where A f great eat lumbering Ped Pe- Pe i d out more petrol and r the Siberian railway ay asters have received to help speed I their perilous way there are oth oth- real al and just as like like- Jr 3 jare are not among amona the The he sky at midday ht The wind howls Ja ale at sea Clouds led aloft as driving a swept blizzard-swept roads and filling and nostrils with ting ing sand caravan has bean deIL de- de jS IL Why mv not an auto auto- the Altai moun moun- mother another danger to be reckless driver to othe the and not not only enemies as well L I all aU those dan dangers ers loop l of thirty Cossacks ut can they fight ht rince ce the news that ea from Prince Bor Bor- lied bed the spurs of the theNo theNo No real road ex- ex paths path created by the long Hong these we dra dragged ged just as big guns ns are are aren mf n It was hard work fortha tires and re- re HP corked with alacrity tsin in time with char char- for the occa- occa Jang sang n 1 and then the fire by a kindly recep recep- ion tion brought fresh waw wa wa- w where we th 1 ere issue women I kJ crowd in stranger r stran er than those They hey form vivacious mud aud walls of the vilno vilno vil vil- vil- vil no sign of excessive contrary they show curiosity Many Heres res re's the railway hey alley of ef f the Huan over a mountain left eft ft side a precipice 11 l of rock It was like getting ettin up a staircase cut in jn the rock Every moment we ran the danger of breaking the en engine ine on the great eat boulders boulders boul boul- ders in its path Sometimes the road almost disappeared between narrow walls giving givin the impression that the automobile au was absolutely closed in and could neither recede nor ad advance vance The heat of the rocks Tocks warmed by bythe the sun was tremendous This r rendered ran ren n. n dered the fatigue all the worse especially especially espe when we had to work with pick and shovel in order to- to smooth opt a passage A K good twelve miles mUes w were ware re passed in this manner until we we entered the sand hills of the Plain of The Mandarin of sent t two o horse soldiers to to meet us who had the ap appearance krance of bf ands They looked us over and then went off at a gallop llop toward the town Thence soon came a curious cavalcade cavalcade cavalcade caval caval- cade formed of old citizens functionaries function functionaries functionaries aries and soldiers all desirous of seeing the mysterious foreign machine in motion mo tion The multitude surrounding us had to be dispersed by the soldiers with blows front from sticks We m made de' de a atrium triumphal triumphal phal entry into a suburb where we passed the nj night ht Who the Men Are I And who are the men that are rushing rush rush- ing log across Asia to reach Europe o only y to rush across Europe to reach Paris t Prince Bor Borghese hese is 36 ye years rs old He Ito left the Italian army to study social questions Today Todar he has nas the reputation of being a model landlord on on his vast estates in Brescia He is isa s- s sa a member of Parliament and dir director of one of the Italian reviews reviews The Con Cental Contal tal tri ear driven by Pons has won many prizes and is apparently a a freak machine It has but three wheels It carries carries a portable brid bridge which is affixed to metal brackets on oi either side of the car With this apparatus apparatus atus Pons can practically make his own road or OT cross a narrow ravine or a astr str stream am He alsA carries a complete camping hud nd cooking cookin t outfit Godard who is driving the Dutch Spyker car has bas fitted up the entire ton- ton neau nean with spara spare parts jacks tools camp camping n outfit and a thousand and one ne necessaries for such a trip of adventure ad The whole is covered with a tarpaulin mounted on a light frame fram Cormier and Colli Collignon non are both experienced experienced men Their De Do Dion Thou machines are models of what can be done in the way of preparing for such a rush across the wide expanse of two continents |