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GERMANY'S NEW ROADS BIG LORRIES BUILT TO MAN WHO
RUN ON THEM
NEVER OWED
CAPABLE OF TRANSPORTING 72,000 LESS THAN
SOLDIERS AN HOUR
French General's Statement
Paris, Feb. 20.
THE development in Germany of great strategic motor
£5,000,000
BANK CHAIRMAN'S "CONFESSION"
roads and of new types of enormous motor lorries to Banking changes that 'have oc- run on them, which together would confer an unprecedent-curred in the last century were ed degree of mobility on vast mechanised armies, are recalled at the annual meetings of described in the current issue of the Revue des Deux the Westminster Bank and the Monres, by General Serrigny, one of France's great Midland Bank in London. Both military authorities, a former secretary of the Higher banks are oclebrating their center- Council of National Defence, and former deputy-chief of ary. the French General Staff.
To-day, he declares, the motor is monarch in the realm of military transport, and this truth, he adds, has been grasped and exploited to the utmost by the German mili- tary leaders ever since the day on which it was decided that Germany should rearm.
Whereas three years ago the biggest motor lorries known in Germany had a useful load of eight tons, to-day,
The Hon. Rupert E. Beckett, of the Westminster, chairman
spoke of the days when banks were owned by country squires. The banker of that day was more in- terested in his farms and horses and hounds than in his bank, and he would give himself a substan- tial overdraft to keep up his stablos.
The change over from the pri- he states, there are to be seen on German roads 15-tons vnto trading firm to the private or public limited company did a great lorries, each with a six-wheeled trailer.
and pose.
artery,
In less than two years, says indientes a clear strategic pur-deal to alter the relations of cus-
First there is a great tomer aiul banker. General Serrigny, forries
running from trailers capable of carrying 50 interal
Referring to the bank's liabilities tons between them will appear. Dusseldorf to Munich, parallel to the public, Mr. Beckett said: Orders are being placed with with the Franco-Belgian frontier, "To me personally it is curious that favourito aphorisms engine specialists for motors of with four branches running up to one of our
should be directed to the iniquity 300 and 400 horse-power.
the frontler itself. An idea of the extent to which,
Unparalleled Rapidity of owing money, beenuse ever since estate I have never according to General Serrigny,! There is another Interal road I came to man' heavy mechanical transport is from Stettin to Gleiwitz, parallel owed less than £6,000,000 and now being developed in Germany is with the Polish frontier, with owo, or rather am responsible for, given by the fact that the sales of branches directed towards Danzig no less than £122,000,000 of other heavy forries rose from 16,000 in and East Prussia. Gleiwitz, of people's money." 1931 to 40,000 in 1934.
These huge lorries, such as are already in existence and under construction cannot be used to full advantage on existing ronds; Germans have therefore, the undertaken to construct a series of special motor roads of enor mous width and carrying capacity.
150,000 Men At Work These roads have each two car- 10ft. riage-ways, from 20ft. to wide. On each the traffic moves In one direction only. Separating the two carriage-ways is a belt of grass 15ft, wide with a hedge or fence running along to cut off headlight beams so that drivers may not be blinded by each other's lamps.
These carriage-ways are laid on foundations of concrete 2ft. thick. They are connected to the existing main roads.
not far from the course, is Czecho-Slovakian frontier. Other: ronds will join these two great lateral highways,
BANKING DEMOCRATISED
Mr. Reginald McKenna, chairman of the Midland Bank, who presided General Serrigny anys that on at the bank's annual meeting, said these great roads lorries, run-that 100 years ago it was a mark ning in double file and carrying of social distinction or business thirty men each at an average distinction to "keep a banker," but speed of 38 miles an hour, could in the course of the century bank- deliver soldiers at the rate of
72,000 an hour to a given point, ing had become democratised.
"Looking back upon the story of even supposing an equel num- ber of lorries were also on the our own bank," said Mr. McKenna, road carrying material and am- "we see that the progress in bank- ing technique has been remarkable. munition. The carriage-ways would, in The vast increase in the use of the fact, permit of three lorries run- cheque finds some rough measure- ning abreast. Thus there would ment In the fact that the turnover be space for any lorry which broke of the London Clearing House in 1840 was less than £1,000,000,000, down to drop to one side without
whereas last year it was nearly the road being blocked.
40 times as much.
"Mechanised armies," says the general, "will be able to inove from
"A hundred years ago there was the left to the right wing, or from only one banking office to roughly
In July 1934, says General one theatre of operations to an- 15,000 people, whereas the propor Serrigny, 38,600 men were work-other, with a rapidity so far un-tion to-day is one to 4,000 of the ing on the construction of theso known,"
ronde. In November of the same: year more than 70,000 men were engaged, while it is estimated that the number has now risen to 150,-| 000.
By the spring of this year nearly 400 miles of these rouds will be finished, and more thun twice this length will be com pleted by the end of the year. According to General Serrigny, the layout of this system of roads
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-NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH-
News Of The World Garnered
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San Francisco, Feb, 20.`
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1 This may, equally well, describe a moral apophthegm or a trx- "jectory.~~~~
Archer-Dan not Freil.
An absent foothold? No, but a little is dangerous.
10 Go back and begin respectfully. Ti Identides a chapel. Is it nat
right to be in it?
12 Patchy.
13 Beg for the little lass
15 Something one sees which isn't.
18 The Egytian appears before the
company in cotton.
19 First Duke of Normandy."
20 Associated with a bib, 22 Fleet,
24 Busy worker of the Levant. 26 Dehend the must daring and those of the greatest years are Jeft.
the office and take more than Joseph Bonnett, Detroit factory minutes in the farewell clinch are worker, looking for "action" lost 27 Buys gilt-odged ancurities. picilty of a
$667 in a game called "I betcha I 530 Weeds regarded as a vegetable. more Money than You Bonnett
misdemeanour.
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DOWN
police that he and William 31 Continent, But the quickest move of the week told Mr. De Valora atated in the Dail
Boston. While being Dennison got playing the game and 32 Blocks in city thoroughfares. last month that he hoped to be imppened in
when he pat $667 on tho table, 33 Take down the Christmas de held in a torturing grip by Wrestler able to say definitely son whether Abe Stein, Wrestler Gene Dubuc pro Dennison ran away with it. Police the British Government are prepar- theed a match from his belt and not captured Dennison, kept the money as ed to grant permission for the re-Bro to Stein's trunks. Stein shrieked evidence, and Bonnett hitchhiked to moval of the remains of Sir Roger and leaped to his feet, beating out work. Casement from Pentonville' Prison. the flames with his hands while
Oddities in the nows. You can An official of the Dominions crowd cheered. The incident must Office told a London newspaper have made Stein's blood ball, too, reduce by staying in bed, the Ameri representative that nothing was because when the bout was resumed can Medical association Journal re- parson weighs 1.3 pounds less when he gets out of bed than when he retires. The University of Missouri Co-ads, of reduction, however, is not permanent. Columbia, (M6), long-suffering con. Evaporation of water from the skin textants in competition to select the and lungs causes the loss of weight, 16.01 llachel! (anag.). Queen of This or the Queen of That, the journal sald.
known there of an application from he quickly finished M. Dubuc. Sorta porta. The average
put him out like light!
the Free State Government: an official of the home Offee said that no statement could be made.
Sir Roger Casement was executed for high treason in 1916.
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Indian unrest ** 3 Announcing & performance by
love-birds?
4 They will be boys--bless them----
that is taken away,
6 In the Exchequer It will probably
not be negotiable.
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8 Jumping from one, thing to as-
other.
14 German lancer.
16-A-change in-treatment; Shat will.
make you miss a beat.
16 Just remember to gather again.
17 Where to do wreng is right.
18 The crossword lettuce.
21 Holes in shoes.
22 Makes the top very far from
rich.
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26 Showy decoration.
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29 Never mind the needle, you'l
easily find a nail.
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