Show MOTOR CARS THROW OPEN NEAR EAST I Threaten To Supplant Railroads In the Country BEIRUT Syria rune Juno K H Amen American an automobiles threaten threat to tl railroads In many pl-I pl pA St t the Tear eu Ea ast t lyria Palestine Mesopotamia and n certain part parts parti of ot 1 md Arabia fleets of o Ameran unto unto- noto cars now link up and to towns ns and afford the tho ra ler a cheaper and more mor cool com comfortable Journey than by rail In some of the tho sparsely nil nd scattered t regions lon of ot the Medi Medi- Mediterranean nean and anI interior countries s Yankee motor cars ars have hasa blazed the way to which heretofore WEre WE're only by long lone and tiresome journeys on oa donkeys an Sn I IA A camels In Syria and nd Palestine 9 fl per cent of all automobiles automobile In use lisa are arc of or American makeIN make IV IN HOLY nOLY 1 LAND LAD D American tourists to the Holy HolyLand HolyLand Land are now nosy able abl to make mak the trip from Beirut to Jerusalem b Automobile over ov r excellent roads rOl I Beto e the adv advent nt of ot the American car the mile mlle trip from Beirut to the Holy City occupied nearly a 0 V week ek today it can be b dono done In ten Len Hours Americans at home horn who think ot of Palestine as it Is la depicted In the Bib a 1 pastoral land untouched by modern lit life would perhaps be bi surprised to find tind the ahole hole region covered by y a great arterial net net- network work nt-work work ot of r road roads and test tut- t t motor cars can The Th wooden r plough lough the hand scythe cythe and the tho theother other primitive Implements Implement which for thou thousands of ot sears lears cars were used u to make malee mak this land fertile and pro pro- pro productive ducU C have base given elven way to modern agricultural machinery In the larger productive area areas the camel and toe ox-cart ox have base been by time sat ine Ing power tractors I cm CUTS DOWN TIME In the old 01 1 days d before the war al It took four tour days to journey from lit I Jerusalem to Nazareth Today It Itcan itcan Itcan can be he done don in four tour hours Alon the tho old tracks the th camel amel hider lader still wends ends his IsIs way ne never or s so much as ILS turning his hil head at the th hoot of ot the caravan caraan of ot automo I automobile automobiles bile biles q Tho Th cherished long 1 Idea of t quick land route from the Medi Mediterranean to Bagdad and India InHa al also al- al also so has been brought within the bythe byth realm of ot practical experience by I the de development nt of ot a motor car service between Beirut and Haifa ani Haifa and Damascus This rout route bring brines Bagdad within 60 6 hours land journey of the th Med Tho The course takes one through Damascus then across the tho Syrian desert to and onto onto on I onI I to Ba Bagdad dad a distance ot of 69 miles a nith Ith ith only one stop halfway between Damascus and at nt Wells the th only available at r source throughout that stretch of t deso t dese-t t |