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FRANCE.

Roads, Rules, and Manners.

THE INHOSPITABLE VILLAGES.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931.

THE MOTORIST IN high price of petrol generally, which is, of course, a matter of taxation, but does not strike an Englishman any the less, but to the extraordinary variations in the price from place to place. Naturally the foreigner thinks he a being robbed, they way, when he Anda that a distance of ten miles may mean a rise of a frane, or toponce, in the price of tho Bye-litre tin. The answer which Such a large part of the foreign the garage gives is always that trade of France consists of those the cost of transport is respou- invisible exports which are re-sible, but obviously there is somo- presented by the money apent in thing else, and a bad impression the country by tourists that it is la created. not surprising that the tourist in-

Although French critics will not' dustry has a representative in the adult that the road system of Government and a group of mem-their country is not good as a bors especially devoted to its in whole-and they are right, for it terests in the Chamber. The

is excellent they cannot help member of the Government in or recognising that the best.r

t.roads in was until he resigned with his

England are better than

any in chief-M. Gaston Gerard. Hie

upkeep. standing

is that of an Under France, as is also their

Why should French Secretary. and he

called- ligh

Commissioner

for engineers, they say, continue to

with make their roads Tour!am.

It is to him that the

exaggerated and dangerous cum- parliamentary "Tourisme group ber, which is liable to send a car which, of course, chiefly means into the ditch na soon as leaves the hotel-keepers-have been into

the centre? No doubt It is to addressing their demand that the carry off the water, but in Great Government shall nilot a consider- able sum to the modernisation, Britain, which is nevertheless

than France, rainier country. development, and, above all roads are nearly flat. The fact advertinement abroad

the that the tarred roads are very often not properly tarred to the

ed

10%

of

medicinal springs in which France

com-

the

roxi

£11

the

in so rich, and the watering places, edges means that there are often: many of which are ill-equipped sudden and treacherous holes in and almost unknown. It is he

that an apparently good surface, and who,

announced recently,

when the holes are mended the the Inter-departmental mittee over which he has presideal tar is not properly mixed with the has decided to offer new offiein stones and the gravel, but merely facilities to tempt tourists to come poured on to the top. to France and to stay longer when they have arrived.

of foreign

The White Line.

All the motorists who had been in England admired the white line along the centre of the road at corners, and advocated ita adop- tion in France, though whether it would cure the average French

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Two from the recently-opened assembly plant in Moscow. ty-five of them, and one truck, were featured in a parade in

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THE 514' FIAT ON MOUNTAIN TRACK

CLIMBS TO HERMITAGE.

No motor car had ever dis- baulked by the flight of stops in

Thus, the duration of a transit viss on a passport is now to be a month instead of a fortnight which means that the ordinary tourist will now have twice as long as he used to have before he driver of the temptation to cut off turbed the quiet meditations of front of the building.

The honour of being the first threshold of need take any steps about identity the corner on the wrong side is the monks living in cloistered ri

doubtful,

clusion on the summit of Mount car to cross the cards. The formalities concern-

Great Britain was also praised Kua (one of the best known and the Hermitage was reserved for a ing the admission motorcars are to be very much for the efficiency and courtesy of steepest peaks in the Eugeanean "514 Flat," the utility car that

Two knows no obstacle, shirks no task. simplified, and the necessary pay to the A's list of hotels, and years ago, it is true, a party of

bay the road officials and police and Hills not far from Padua).

Two young university students ments can be made by means of fiscal stamps. obtainable at post the severity with which houses are motorcyclists succeeded in climb of Padua, Franco and Giovanni offices. Motor parks are to be excluded from it if they are noting right to the door of the Moassuti, In consequence of a motor cycle excursion organized wager with their fellow students.

Padun for Torreglia In the neighbourhood of up to the mark. created in Custom-houses at frontiers, and Nearly all the correspondents by the journal "Motorciellam" but left

which attempted to Armistice Day (November 4) in there is even a promise that the agreed that neither the gendara motor car Custom-houses themselves shall merie nor the local municipal emulate the agile two-wheelers on their "614" and there resolutely steep, narrow mule In less than path up Mount Run. be brightened up, and the passage authorities in France had yet the same necasion, found itself attacked the through the douane be made less abandoned the spirit of the horse-

half an hour, displaying uncom- owner todicus and less annoying.

or pedestrian of the period limit, perhaps there would be

of chance when the motoriet was consider-

motorists mon driving skill, they arrived at the threshold of the Monastery. ed to

to be a natural enemy. A observing them if they were a

council wii deliberately little more reasonable; but when taking the last fight of stapes

Varying Price of Petrol.

more

on

Meanwhile, the most important intain an ancient paying of a driver renda that the maximum/which had proved too much for

French

have

evening paper in Paria has been holding a symposium, in have very rough stone sette along its is seven and a-half miles an hour, all previous attempts by car, in

motorists who

main street, or will refuse to re-he naturally trenta the whole their stride. travelled abroad have been giving place an open conduit across it by thing nya, ja couple of gen-them and thus for the first time The Prior opened the door to joke. However, their opinions about one or two possible improvements in France. They all refer, not only to the

inn motor car entered the sacred more civilised way of obliging couples-la determined to make a precincts of the Monastery.

The two plucky drivers return- cars to slow down. As for the capture, it is not always a joke, notices which are placed at the and one correspondent told of how ed the way they had come, down same male path which had entrancew of villages and he had actually been fined for the announce the decision of the driving at ten miles an hour, showed what a sturdy and agile

Iclimber was their "514." council as to the permissible speed är.

an underground pipe, because they

have not yet been able to devise darmes they always work

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