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THE MAGIC CARPET-3 BY THOMAS H. WISDOM

ORTIFIED by our on- forced rest at Bongasi we planned a day and night run across the desert to Alexandria-the reason Was two-fold; we wanted to escape from Italian territory without delay, and desert motoring, 11 one can find the way, la more pleasant when the sun is not scorching into your very bittin,

The British Consul was sorry to nee us go he had not spoken a word in Eriglish for seven weeks until we arrived. His last visitor bad been Tommy Rose, held up by the Italians on his record Cape bt. Like many another exile, he sighed for the green felds and real trees of England.

The giblich, the North African mis trd whilch blows hot rand jutó”you nud sends Ambs mad, so that they, - suddenly attack their Italian mastera. was still with 14%. But the tempera- ture was only of deg--comparatively rool.

Not all the desert is flat-we had a emple of mountain passes to aurmoun before we reached Derns, fortifled town where our credentials were ex- amined carefully. Eventually, with a fat and garlic-breathed carabicle as addittoriai patenter to the alripuly overloaded far, wo paired through Whe gates which gher Nat the stronghoęk,

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VERYWHERE we soldiers, lorries, cund, frantle work on roads, From the obvious military prep- nration it is apparent that the Hallans are as frightened of the

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Peppercorn:

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thing very funny about figurën sontelimes, we the other night when George Davin told down 13,3 40070.

to write

Jim Pratt pointed but to Ovorge that he'd forgotten the 8, but George and themes part of the mystery.

Then he told usku multiply the 12340010 by any single gure we liked, and afterwards to multi- ply the total by 0 and see what we mot.

One or two slackers said they'd got something better to do than work out surns to adjust young George, but the rest of us tried it out, and, barring a few mistakes in multiplying that had to be corrected, we got some curious frauita.

30 m.p.h. LIMIT

100 miles from a

Building

Egyptians as the Euypilana are of the Hallons. But our guide hur- ried us on, though he lost us a couple of timea,

After 200 miles, including by- wing the "hush-hush" town of Tobruk, and a entuple of hearty bangs on the head when our guide loat fais Jandhold over "road " Put was worse than the rest, if that were goestble, we arrived at the barbed wire wall that guarded. entry to Egypt.

Marduar gum, ammonites In cart.

froom

fed Ebis barbed wire trandary, a grim scene that un- folded na dhawn broke. We really were - going to cross "no fans land this time. A careful examination of our papers oncamore, the gift of a Clxanti- bottle of petrol frein a friendly Italian offleer, for we were desperately short of fuel, a barbed wire gale was mild back, and we snk "Oral" for the last time.

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UT a few days before, the barbed-wire fence had been the scene of 11 flare-up." An Italian sergeant and four men, with surveyhng gear, sure found by Egypitons nu the wrong alde, and were clapped into jail. Fol- lowing day British officers, invited to cross the frunther for cup of coffe with their friends the (might bel Enemy, as had been customary, found Themselves also in the local "lack-up." How they finally solved the imparse I know not.

Ten milies of desert in a binding sandstorm that was to be with us ali day, and we reached the tiny seaport of Sollum, first place in Egypt. Per- mission for us to traverse the pro- hibited military zone was awaiting us. 'The Egyptina military and pollca were charming. the Shell representativo- has red 20 years in this

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and-swept dump-made us tea, and off we net for Mersit Matruh, Thất day was like the others-160 niles in blazing heat ond dying barsi, over a thick that dors not even descrve that description. 1 was just hard gomg-sometimes we were glad to see 20 miles covered in an hour. It n de-restricted" zona with the nearest ~bulit up" aren 100 miles away, the rond Kreif decided that 25 and mol even 30 n.ph. was the sperd-iimil.

of what we saw at Mersa Matruh we mittat hol spral, but I bet the Thailan would be surprised. Anyhow, an ariny canteen provided us with the most welcome incal of the trip-bacon and egga and tea!

FF we went again-100 miles in Alexandria. FV- ing sani had turned to fying allica dust, a fine dust like brown' face-powder that renders a petrol engine a case for a complete · overhout after 2,000 (yes two thousand} ile.

More bad going-Just bumpy, deso- Inte desert. Önce we ran into an Arab

(above) The road beside the Nile (left) The danger is not jay-walkers but -reckloss camels.

encamp- ment neur the new rallway line 10 Mersa Matruh, and I spont half hour in A

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Art with Arabs, squatting on the ground, drawing maps in the dual, After much alms-language and a drink of the ceremonial" ten tevil- ameling, evil-tasting stuff) we hit tho right track.

Q. finally, that night WA escaped from the desert and reached our first goal, Alexandria, We had crossed the Libyan desert-the first time that 2,000-mile journey had been made since October, in the teeth of a continuous sandstorm. Moreover, despite that enforced delay in Italian territory, Wo had beaten the fastest bont from London to the Egyptian port. We reached Alakaluri 17 anys 22 hours vafler leaving London. The car was behaving splendidly-sand, tamps. heat and a heavy load left hum- affected.

A day's rest for the crew, and then we oped down the earth-road beside the Ne (which, like the "Blue Danube, is any colour but blue) to

Cairo. They bind the surface of these darth-roads by pouring water on them that in why skids, in a country where It never (or nearly never) rains, re, a frequent enuse of cars diving into canal or river. Busy with arrangements for the next part of the journey, I set a record as bebug the first English tourist to ree Brinn Cairo and riot the Pyranilda. Lewis and Mrs. Wisdom were dla appointed--Pyramids and the Sphinx are In a suburb like Golders Green, and trama run to the very base of these famous tomba, Tram ilckets nee littered everywhere, and Arabs sell ice-cream!

All Cairo was bury with the search for the German Milster, lost in the desert. He had set out in bis car to an oasis, was caught in the khamscen (only unother name for the giblick) and all trace of him was lost. Camel Corps, R.A.F. machines, dazens of enra were searching for him. He was not to be found for five days-reduced then to practically the last drop of water from the railator of his car,

We left the following morning for the crossing of the Suez Canal and our second desert, the North Binal desert, -to Jeruzalem.

68 DUELS; NEVER HIT

Budapest, June 1. William Clair, author of the code which is the manual of all Hungarian ducilists, is seventy-eight.

He has fought sixty-eight duels, but was never once hit-Neuter,

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severe cold.

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