Having left Palestine early in October, Dr. A. von Miorini, Shanghai physician, who is motoring across Asia, writes that he arrived in Cal-cutty on November 15. His account of road conditions follow:—The trip from Kabul to the Indian border is chiefly distinctive by the fact, that there isa road with many very coarse gravel stones, which were successful in cutting three of my yres within half an hour. I was sitting on the roadside and waiting for a car or lorry, which might help ne along, because 1 had only two pares leit and needed three After some time an Indian bus came along and we mended one tyre with a rope strung round the disc and tyre and filled the tyre with a tube of the bus, which had to be folded in my tyre, which was too small in ize. So I arrived with one lame oot at the frontier.
Just behind the passport examination bungalow on the Indian side the way starts with asphalt surface, running over the Khyber Pa hich is extremely interesting. It was weet music to my ears to hear the vheels sing on the asphalted corners, wt last, after four weeks of bad or no roads at all.
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