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Show Dodge Brothers Motor Cars Used in Persian Trip By The Leag-ae of Nations X. h-n o.iiei-iU of the League ff Nations latt Ccnoa recently to .; .:. the NV.... r.a a unj obtain intoruiu- Kion at fiiit hand on the .growth of she pertly plant, frcm which opium is proe.ucod, Ixidge Ll others Motor Cars piajcj an important part in the dangerous and highly exasperating la k. ( The League officials had been semt out to gather ail available data on this seductive product and formulate p ins for the League's cont.nol of its i!.. aribution. Persia was their first objective. They traversed the Med-in... Med-in... I aaean Sea, landing at Beyrouth, 'n Syria, several hundred miles lirom the point where they were to bein 'their actual labors. Major fiourdillon, hlj. h com.mia-c com.mia-c oii.r for ft -ail , realized that the ' League .membena faced a journey of 'tenifiic hardships over deserts and ' mountains ithat might make iit aLmost ' umbearable to those afoot or atop 'i he back of beasts of burden. Eut Major Bourdillon owns a ' Dodje Brothers Motor Cam for his personal use. He. knew what it could da on apparently impassable terrain in 'the inland sections. Ac-'cordiagly Ac-'cordiagly he sent a message to P. A. ; Kettaneh, of the Eastern Motor Company, who hurried to Bagdad, ' where a fleet of Dodge Brothers ve-' ve-' hiclos was obtained. This f le, t Consisted of a Dodge Brothers Sedan, a Touriri; Car and a Screen Panel : Corivmercial Car. These were driv-'en driv-'en il 'o,m Bagdad aero.s.s the lower end of Turkey ito Beyrouth from which 'Point ithe journey across Persia was undertaken. The party .completed its Ion,? difficult dif-ficult task, traveling several thousands thous-ands of miles in these Do-,',;a Brothers Motcln Car,3 wRhoiui; any inconvenience inconveni-ence or injury to the momebrs, entire en-tire salis.facl.ion being acclaimed by ' the officials when they returned to 'Beyrouth. "Major Bourdillon informed mem-' mem-' bers of the League Mission on their aif.iva.l in Beyrouth that the nature ' of jtlie couniry over which they were to travel in Persia was -most difficult," diffi-cult," writes P. A. Kettaneh, in tell-' tell-' ing of the adventure. "The ,hair pin curve? and the dangerous mountain moun-tain .paoses were poiinted, out to iem and Major BoeUULon assured these nfflcial'S that only a Dodige Brothers Motor Car cou'ld give thera the service ser-vice desired. The members were -h.v-.hly p!en-ed at the performance ' of thfe cars and assured High Com- . mnsioneir Bourdillon that they appreciated ap-preciated his thou-hifulnes,s in providing pro-viding motor cars of nu.eh character foi- the-m." |