Show I I I I AUTOS CROSS SYRIAN DESERT Displace Camel Camel Caravans Speed Up Tourist Traffic The conquest of the Syrian du- du des desert ert crt by the automobile has becomes become a practical and established fact and this once difficult barrier to trade has haa been transformed Into an Important highway of o commerce and travel Consul Gregg Fuller In a report to the department of ot commerce from Te Teheran Tc- Tc heran Persia Along the old routes where two years ago only the camel caravans could safely travel scurrying American motor cars ears are now mak mak- makIng making ing their regular trips from to Bagdad from Bagdad to Beirut from Beirut to lo Damascus and by stations with a precision and dis- dis dispatch dispatch dis dispatch patch that Is looked upon as a harbinger of new era of commer commer- commercial commercial cial and economic development I The success of this service hu has already had the unexpected result of oC Increasing tourist traffic both India and Europe By fly catch catch- catchIn catching In ing a fast tast boat bont from Bombay to Basra It Is II possible to reach Eng Eng- England Eng Eng- England England land In eighteen days das b by way of Bagdad Haifa 1 and Alexandria This route commends Itself to many travelers from India home partly on account of the tho short sea pa passage age and partly owing to Its novelty By taking the Anatolian railway route from Damascus to Constantinople It Is actually pos poe possible pos possible sible to escape toe Ine sea altogether I from Basra to Calais The Tho trip to London to Bagdad BagdadI can now be completed In seven I days Instead of oC two twenty-two to five I twenty five days as formerly formerly- Bus Inc mess s men can reach the Persian gulf from Europe In 10 third one-third the time previously required Not only I a the tho desert routes mad made madu It tt e ea ler cai-ler ice ler for tor the tho cast east to reach Europe and the European countries to ad- ad administer administer ad administer minister eastern governments but It ha has haa Joined more closely together the Moslem world |