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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929.

JAPANESE CINEMA STAR'S CAR.

Senaue Hayakawa, the only Japanese artist who has be- come a cinema star in America, with his new Oldsmobile in

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NEXT STOP, SAHARA!

By A. P. Garland.

dozen other volumes of the kind, It will be admitted that I am on- titled to be the apokeaman, of the great African waste. :

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$. A. TRIALS.

Erskine's Good Performance.

fied spoed throughout the test. Officials were stationed at five open control points and two hidden checking points, Failure to maintain the specified specd and arrive on time at each checks ing point resulted in the loss of one point for each 30 seconds.the

scheduled time.

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entrant was behind or ahead of THE HONORARY SECRETARY

H. KA. A.

The French, I regret to say, have been the first to lay sacrilegious hands on the Sahara. Nothing, iye Much as I admire Captain Camp-know, la sacred to a sapper, and bell and his motoring achieve French engineers have run a cater WINS PRIZE TROPHY. ments, 1 cannot but regret his pre-pillar motor coach service. In the

Highest honours in the Barber Thirty-four contestants entered sent intention of ransacking the Moroccan hinterland. Satara in order to find a suitable

tan Reliability Trini, South the trial, of which seven failed to What a dismal thought! The racing track for another attempt

eternal silence of those sandy Africa motor classic, were by a start. Nineteen completed the run, the Erskine Six-leading with on the speed record,.

wastes broken by raucous-voiced stock model Eraking Six Sedan, 906 points, and followed by two men shouting "Outside only" according to "word received by competitors who tied for second which must sound perfectly terrible The Studebaker Corporation or with 957 points....

It is one of the thin enda of the many wedges that are being driven into the magle beauty of the my- atorious desert, which has such a wonderful message for all who like myself, can gra♫ it,

I mention myself advisedly, When it is remembered that I am the author of "Highways and By- ways of the Sahara," "Unknown Bits of the Sahara," "Off the Bea- ten Track in the Sahara," and

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in French, or "Fares, plense." America. The Erskine, piloted by The triuniph of the Erskine Six

Again, when Captain Campbell Alec Mackintosh, amatour driver, in winning the South African event has finished with his newly-discover-

ad track, along will come a tribe of scored 966 points out of a possible adds another performance feat 19 hard-faced men, who will start dirt-1,000, to win the grand national the long list of records held by track racing, with Sprouts Frogley cup, two gold medals and a certi Studebaker-built and Co. puncturing with loud barks ficate of merit. the serene harmony of the moonlit desert. Appaliingi

shine

cars, among which are five world records, 114 official American records and 18) Australian records.

REMEDIES SQUEAK,

rests upon the cowl and the radia

The Barberton Reliability is an After that will come filling stat-event organized by the Rand Motor ions

Cycling Club, Johannesburg, Continuous as the stars that Transvaal, and is open to all types of private motor vehicles and both

An annoying squeak often can be And gleam along the Milky Way amateur and trade drivers. This ......and hoardings urging travel year the test was conducted over a traced to a point where the hood ers to start the day with Hayfood specially selected course of ap

tor. Metal-to-metal contact la or grow new hair with Beano. proximately 500 miles,

avolded here by the manufacturers But vulgarisation at its worst. The first day's run led from through the use of fabric strips, will not begin until the Sahara be Johannesburg through Delmas to These strips become glazed and comes a fashionable place for plenic Witbank, Middleburg, Wonder produce a squeak that proves, most parties-a fate that inevitably fontaine, Carolina and 83 miles) disconcerting to driver and passen- nwalts it.

A few drops of ofl'will re Then we shall ace the over the mountains to Barberton, gers, whole, desert infested with family a distance of 250 miles. The restore these strips to their desired groups, who will leave behind, en turn trip was made over the same softners. souvenir, bottles, ham-bones, tin route two days later.

cans, cartons for hot-or more ilke ly cold-dogs, chocolate-boxes and pieces of greasy newspaper.

Happily, there are still a few Araba left of the old ferocious) breed-men who awing a mean spear. They many be trusted to keep the early pienickers in order. But numbers will inevitably prevail.

As for the sheikh-I can see no Hope for him. He will never ven- ture to try any Lochinvar stunt on Fatima, his favourite camel, when the said Fatima is apt to run athwart a Morris-Ford and get considerably the worse of it.

In all probability, he of the pier cing black oyes and glamorous ways will find it more profitable to don a suit of plusfours, hire an ice- wagon, and dare forth with the legend, "Stop Me and Buy One."

Ichabod The romance of the desert will vanish..

I have just discovered from a| reference book that the Sahara hus an area of 3,500,000 squnro miles. This means, of course, that the complete vulgarisation of the place will take quite a little time. I am glad to know that.

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