THE MAGIC
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HE oldest road in the world, the track that Joseph, sold into bondage by his brothers, must have followed, winds amid the sand-dunes from Egypt to the Holy Land.
Distance from Cairo to Jeru-
• salém is 30 miles. We hoped that the "Magic Carpet" could do the Journey in one day. Soon we were in the desert again, with the khamseen still blowing, and 80 miles over the rutted rond, with rolling sand-dunes on either side, saw us at Suez, Ten miles further
and we reached
El Caubri, where Egyptian Cus- toms were 'cleared and we ran the car. aboard the tiny ferry for the erosing of the
On- the Ferry over the Suez Canal.
CROSSING The CANAL
famous canal. The Siunt desert was different. Instead of the Creary plateau we had wearled of in the Libyan desert, we started off by climbing a mountain of sand and rock, the crossing of the Mil Pass. Here we saw a grin re- minder of The dangers of the desert-the skeleton, probably, of a camel driver caught in a sand- slor, half-buried in the drifting sand.
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I was hotter than tver
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Was tillrsty work, but we resolutely refused to touch our three gallons reserve at water. We should need that should we get stuck. Brian suggested, in- stead of "To Bagdad, Please." painted on the side of the car in six languages, "Two bitters, plea.e" would have been better!
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Early afternoon saw way, at the brackish well. of Bir Hissana, where a fellow motorist, driving in the other direction, warned us of the perils of going on of indistinct tracks, · a fallen bridge,, great areas of soft sand and Arab riots in Palestinė. But after our adventures in Libya we felt ft to tackle anything, so, after attempting to quench our thirst with the nalty water of the well, we Went 0.1.
The road was not too bad. Once. beginning to believe we were lost, we found the roofices house na cemetery "that was the only land- We mark in 100 miles of desert. crossed the froniler at El Auļa and. with darkness setting in, reached Beersheba and the Palestine Cus- toms House.
We were ordered to report to the police and we found the reason as we drove to the barracks-Arabs
rushed from the Uny cafes and the
They never worry about their figures at cocktail time
These unbelievably smart and slender women congregating at the cocktail hour, Because they call for a GIMLET. Gin-for-kick-Lime juice-for-a-slim-figure-clear eyes-and-a- cool head next morning.
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HE
[E' wears 'the Arab headdress.
and lives like an Arab, spend- ing weeks on end in a tent. Packer said, "Glubb has stopped raiding' and is, of white men, more FC
pected and feared than any."
Apparently, you have only to meet an Arab in the desert and say. The sahib is looking for you, to instil a fear that speaks for the greatness of this "ruler" of the Arabs.
Ho is the mystery man of the desert-you hear stories about · him wherever you meet another white man.
Next stage was up a, rough track beside the Damascus-Medina rail- way, the single line track that Lawrence and his' Arabs blew ap time Agalu
and JORDAN
main street so soon as they saw the car, waved sticks in a distinctly threatening manner and hurled stones, Everybody who does not wear a fez la a Jow-that is the Arab reasoning.
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ARNED & the dangers by the young English police chief, who could.
not sparo a man since he was hourly expecting riots to start, and with our automatic loaded and ins à side-pocket of the car, we pro- 'ceeded
at our own risk."
Outside Hebron, infamous for the slaughter of 3 Jews in the
DEMOCRACY FOR RUSSIA
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Moscow, June S. An all-union congress of the Soviet Party is being called to consider the Stalin report on the proposed new Soviet constitution, drafted by M. Stalin with a committee of advisers.
The project, which will bring a form of democratic election and party rule to the Soviet, has already been approved by the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party."
It provides for a President and Parliament composed of Upper and Lower Houses, ali three being elected
1029 rioting, we were met by a lorry load of armed British police, Following close on the tall of the lorry we ran the gauntlet of the
rss Arabs, through Betlehem to Jerusalem. We iny the night at famous King David's Hotel, where Haile Selassie has been staying.
Early next morning we rounded the walls of the city, past Damas- cus Gate and the Garden of Geth- semane and by
mountainous
B
road to Jericho and then twisted down 1,000 feet below sea-level to cross the River Jordan by the.. Allenby Bridge.
It - was 11:0 hottest day WO had yet experi- enced-down In the valley of the Dead Sea, with- put a breath of wind, the' skade temperature was 110 degrees.
Soon we were climbing again to the desert 4,000
feet above the
And
$
time
funned revolt in the desert until- the Turk was beaten..
Crossing the famous railway, we reached · Mafrak, where we joined the pipeline that pumps Iraq petrol 800 miles across the desert from Kirkuk to Halfa.
The pipeline, completed two years ago, is of 12-inch bore and appears as a low mound of earth
The Allenby Bridge over Jordan.
Dead Sea. Next stop was ting Amman, capital of Transjordani. ittle changed since Biblical days, except that the city has a "round- about" (a ring of Darrels) and a one-way streetf
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had introduéllons from our friends of the Vacuum On Company. for we intended to follow the Iraq Company's 'pipeline Petroleum across the Syrian desert. Looking
for the local office, we called h error at the Emir's palace, where to our embarrassment, the guard and presented turned
QUE ** nims!
For the Arst timé, ču a "motor- had lunch-thé by direct secret ballot. Ponsants willing day." we be given the vote equal to town work charming IP.C. manager refused ers. It will recognise work as the to let us depart without it. To the elementary right of every citizen as well as his civil and proprietary rights. Parijament will consist of 200 senators and 600 members of tho Lower House.
The move towards democracy le affecting Justico also. The State Prosecutor, Vyshinsky, recently de- clared that the entire criminal code will be revised giving more protection to individual rights and property. Prisoners will be afforded more op- portunity
their to state
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Cambridge Union Elects The Emperor
delight of my wife, the meal was served by a real genuine sheikh ind his slave. This tall, fine-look- ng Arab, made the mistake of following the Turks during the
war. He lost his lands, and s0 attached himself ns, bodyguard personal servant to Mr. and Packer.
We were in the desert made Zamous by T. E. Lawrence.
We heard, too, of a new "Lawrencé “→ ·
duninulive, unassuming man vho rules the Arabs. Major J. B... Flubb, MC, brother of Gwenda Stewart, famous racing motorist, desert chief of the Arab zion, the police force of Trans- Mania,
He is now entitled to take part in their debales,
Cambridge, June 1. Halle Selassie, Emperor of Aby- sainia, was elected a viember of the of Cambridge, presented the un- The Emperor as on lionorary doctor Cambridge University Union to-night. Iversity with elephant tusks.
SALESMAN SAM
HEY, SAM, I AIN'T SEEN FLYWEIGHT FLYNN SINCE LUNCH!'FIND HIM, AN' TELL 'IM HE'S RIDIN' TH" HOPELESS
HANDICAP. AT 4 O'CLOCK!
TO HOT iPow-Wow!
I STAND
I'LL SEE IF HE'S IN HIS, 'ROOM, BOSS.
surmounted by telegrapli poles. It runs dead straight across the desert and is not difficult to follow so long as you do not stray too far from the telegraph wires,
F
T--was hard going, especially across a 100-miles wide belt
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France;
"lab. negus as anagram in Eng- land (two words, 4, 0).
6 Spread.
9 One who is preferred in the
church.
11 D and P. for example.
12 I was a strong ring that he made, foiling rabbits in their efforts to get at the young plants (hidden).
13 Describes the rabbit that never 14 it may be laid in bed-rooms, but
shows fear.
not this type.
1 Shell gathered by a graduate all
by himself, for mother of pearl.
19 Often eaten with cake.
20 A Scot? She might be, perhaps.
of larva-a region so desolate that 21 Fish that your fiancée will love
23 Hidden in Chie 12.
24 Looks black for the match: they
may have
have to scratch in the end.
it is impossible to describe. It to look at. meant motoring mile after mile across desert that was a mass of big black rocks. Fifteen miles south of the track we followed is Saladin's Pool, only water in the larva country.
Night had fallen when we first saw, 35 miles away, the flashing beacon of "H-1." the pipeline pumping station where we were "to spend Ulfe night,
Next: "
modern city in
the desert; a river overflows and stops the magic carpet: Bagdad at inst-these adventures will be described in the concluding article.
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TERRIBLE I GOT LIVER TROUBLE!
24 However big; it may be, it would
certainly be bigger the other way round.
20 Mr. Vacliell, in une of his stories, says, "England, a little Island, separated from the rest
world of the
by an immense called Hulf 30 Are pins made by this Oriental
Eentleman
31 Spaniard, for instance, as a
rule, has two.. No. these are not riding- breeches.
32
DOWN
2 Air cane from here--largely -hot.
3
debt.
and so extinguishes the
4 Poet and jeweller-not Cellini.
5 An island prison.
If this is your hurry, just louch the bell after tea.
7 Mengre discount that begets dis-
appointment.
10
ing with wit,
See it on a potato.
15 The tailor gives no sauce to his.
10
Slightly
intoxicated, about-the quantly drunk?
18 This clue is very thin, I'm afraid, 20 The Toast (two words, 3, 4). 22 T
ring on (anag);-
25 This French cape is worn over
the head. 27 A kiss as used under cold con-
ditions.
28 Hidden in Clue 12.
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