The route seems pretty safe to me, for British armoured ears go out from each terminus several hours before the mail starts, and we passed ove of these every 150 ites or 03 b ein plane tation Jordania, fr bombing' planes patrol the route. In that desert they can see thing the size of a man for 30 miles of more in every direction in the day, and T guess they see our lights at nicht too. 'These planes and the cars are in touch by wireless, So far no cars have been stopped by Arabs on this new route, and, in! fact, the whole way over we only caw' about 30 of them, in two or threes, and all near the Eastern side.
There is a stretch of about 60 miles which they call the Bay of Biscay because it is so rough; rolling desert packed with jagged rocks from six inches to three fect in diameter. Until I saw it done I would never have thought a car could ce through such stuff at the rate of even a half' mile an hour, but they went through that, stony wilderness at about eight miles an hour and only turned aside for rocks over 18 inches high.
T have tremendous respect. for the Cadillac. The Nairns use them clusively and say no other car, ropean or American, could get through.
Midnight Theilt There is another stretch, in the middle, (ha: for over 250 miles hard and like a billiard table, There, right through the night, they went at over GO miles an hour, Jamming all brakes on every little and stopping within 20 fect hen we seemed to he running into cullyy which ueuelly turned out to be a bit 9% blacker ground or the moon's shadow cast by: a few ange Brushes, the only things that grow over the whole 600 mites of desert, But then there are the veal lullles and the thought that you may hit tone ist 60 miles an hour makes it too exciting for me to want peat the tip. did not elise amy ever for 48 looking to see what.
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