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Show BOGDA UN IS REALTRA VELE R Ruler Wow Enioys the Modes Of Automobile I ravel In China l llogdp Kahn Is not the name of a mountain .. popular noel. or a nevJ 1 brand of mince meat. Vet it is I name to conjure with in China, where I Itogd.i Kahn is well and favorablj 1 known No Chinese edition of Who'i Who ' is considered complete without Bogdn Kahn's name in It You will gather 1" this time that thlfl chap It I'o ratlin- Important personage and h? lis, for h ! ranks as Mongolia s only 'god-klnK. He W regarded not merelv las a king but Is also worshiped as a livinc deitv. Keddless to say, he ha? B tremendous hold on his followers. KINGS n Bogds Kahri kings It" at L'rga. the capital of Mongolia lust a short little spin of 700 miles across the groat Cobl desert. The word 1 spin ' Is UBSd advisedly It is s recent addition to the god-king's vocabulary t'ntii a few v'i eks -iro. whenever he wished to take trip dow;i to the blr town ' wntch in China la Pekln it mejmt a Journey of several weeks by the hump-and - bump route. Anyone who ha ever ridden a camel over Too miles ot desert des-ert real desert, not the burning sands of the lodge loom will appreciate that, unlike what is claimed for the-cigarette the-cigarette In the well-known advertisement, advertise-ment, it does-i't "satisfy.'.1 At least It fulls to satisfy tiie man with a sensitive sensi-tive Hine. Mil sl'IM And thf spine of Bogda Kahn Is a migh: be expected from an jtrlstoci of the aristocrats, sensitive. He (Iked ihe pretty girls and the gaudy lanterns lan-terns and bright lights of Poklp, bul oh how he hnted thut 700-mile camel Jaunt. Now. T. M. Lucas was a name thai, until very recently was totalh unknown un-known to Rogdn Kahn. Lttcafe could have sent DP his calling card a dozen times and Boigds would never have a much as lifted his eyelashes But thai was, as we Bald up until very recently. re-cently. l.ucas now has full entree to the i. a lace, and the Wi Iconi'-' sign is on! the mat eeti if the hour If two In the morning and the king has been ui late every night for n week For Lucas has opened up to the god-king 'i new vista of delight and a practical' means as well of getting down to Pekln And taking in the Ijtest show morei than win every Second year Lucas has sold the Mug a car, or rather two .is both Franklins one a touring car nmi the othT a limousine The are the first automobih i to be seen In the streets of f5rgn Fm as Is fhe American manager of the Pekln automobile establishment es-tablishment thut sells Franklin cars in China, and lie made the 700-mlle trip from Pekin to Frga to sell the king a car. |