PEKIN TO PARIS MOTOR CAR RACE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43115, 9 July 1907, Page 4

PEKIN TO PARIS MOTOR CAR RACE.

The motor 'Car trial from Pekin to Paris was organised hy the French, newspaper “Le Matin.” The cars were sent off in the presence of Ministers of France, Russia., and Italy, and the director of the Kusso-Ghinese Bank, who were constituted an honorary committee for the occasion. Prince Khilkoff, the 'Russian Minister of Roads and Railways (whose faith in the automobile is well known, since he started negotiations for establishing services of automobiles in the Crimea before they were, broken off by the war), expresses the belief that this demonstration will he followed by the opening up of motor communication through ChinaL The well known motorist,' M. Cormier, has been selected to accompany the camel caravan from Pekin with the supplies of petrol, of which 4001 b weight, equal to about fifty gallons, are to be distributed along every sixty miles of the route. All other arrangements for the comfort) and .convenience of the competitors when travelling through Mongolia will be carried out by Dr. Davidoff. In Russia the Government will facilitate progress in every possible way, and so complete are the arrangements that even in the most out of the way places ini China, the automdbilistS will be in telegraphic communication with their friend® at home. The route ip through Manchuria, via Kalgan, Urgai, Irkutsk (Lake Baikal), -Kansk, Tomsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Ziatoufo, Kazan, NijnifNovgorod, Moscow*, Warsaw, thence through Germany and Belgium. to Parts, a distance roughly estimated to be something between 6000 and 7000 mile®. It will thus be seen that the motorists have had sensational experiences before much of the journey has been accomplished.