New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 19

sometimes breaking through into plateaus and hills, accounting for the ‘ Hoggar massif. tific knowledge concerning the truc Unknown to Furopeans “Part of this Hoggar plateur is well- l“.mn »d and productive, but so few uropeans have been into the arca ‘thut there is almost no descriptive “ l Thl. h Th material on the nature of the country § Through These That New|orie'seomic svariasie tor the ina: tive reader. One of the most colorful lemad wlu GO bits of literature touching upon the , region is Pierre Benoit's romance ‘At- G ».' It even boasts a skeleton of rashi vstem though the water is Washington, D. C., March 7.—“It!temperamental about its flowing hours, sounds like a geagraphical joke 10!y, ving calied a strike many years ago. say that the railway which the Sometimes the rs run for a few propose building across the nonths and occasionally for a whole Desert from Algeria to the Niger|year The Igharghar, which is a large river, though most of it will lie in|\a)ey and ancient watcr-course ex- the torrid zone, will pass through A1 tending from the Hoggar mountains volcanic mountain range crowned !, gistance of.§00 miles to the Shott with snow during three months of the | Airhir, is stili dignified by the name year—the Hoggar mountains of lh«:’u(- River, though it is entirely dry. But Sahara,” say a bulletin from Was! in its bed may be found a few fresh- ington, D. C, headquarters of thel ater shells, National Geographical Society. | “One of the ancient streams which “This vast mountainous plateau in| | rose in the Hoggar mountains the Taf- reality about equals the Alps in area, | raesagsent, believed to have been, but most of it les only from 4,000 10| \eurg ang ago, part of the course 6,000 feet above sca-level. Two peaks,|or the Niger river. In Crefaceous Mounu Watelllen and, Hikena, 1¥ing | times, some geologists believe, a great about 900 miles in a straight line al-| portioy of the Sahara was under a most due south of the city of Algiers, | sey which extended from the Atlantic Jjust pass the §,000-foot mark, and|yg the foot of the Hoggar mountains, Mount Tllimane rises to 9,000 feet. | poggil sea urchins, -and a nautilus or Pet Notions of Desert Must Go two have been recovered from vari- “When one acquires actual scien- | 0us portions of the desert, seeming to bear out the theors. 3 : “These mountaing, through Which nature of the Sahara, some of the pet | ¢ Tropic of Cancer passes lic on the notlons one has had since childhood | borderline, between the Mediterrancan must go into the discard. The Sahara|flora of the northern Sahara and the is not & broad stretch of sandy desert, | tropical species existing to the nor are caravans and armies engulfed | Land of the Dreaded Tuaregs tn the sands, except very rarely in that| “At their base are saveral well-wa- portion of the great expanse to the | tered oases supporting large tribes of cast known at the Libyan desert. | Berbers, They are iknown as Tauregs “The alliterative expression “The Sa- [and are among the wildest of the hara is 4 sca of sand’ which so glibly [ nomad races that inhabit the desert. rolls off the tongue is mislcading and | Once they had an unenviable repu- partially erroncous, for the surface|tation as the ggeatest robbers in ghe of the desert offers a great deal of |Sahara, but the French have been try variety ranging from depressions more | ing to curb their ‘taking’ ways., Their than 100 feet below sea level tolcountry is well placed to foster in plateaus five or six thousand feet!them such tendencies. It lies on the above, and in isolated instances even {rade route of caravans from the Niger higher, Interspersed between the |to the north with poorly watered areas sand-dunes and oases there are also!to the north and south. Most of the tracts of loose stones and pchbles uudl'ru,lrog.s have buocome expert *eame valleys which must in ages past have | drtvers in order to enable them to been the beds of streams. | catch up with and overhaul thelr “Across this wind-swept waste, | quarries, whose surface Is continually changing, | *“The customs of these people al- « broad band of rocks stretches, some- | ways provide a source of interest be- times hiding below the surface and|cause the woman of the family is the !*head of the house” and dictates the | goings and comings of her better-self. S488880089800808808808888828 | )y the death of the chief the son of 3 % | his eldest sister, in no case his own son, is chosen to rule in his stead, sub- ject to the |”umul of the tribesmen,’ .8 L2 AT YOUR HATTERS Now on display you'll find all of the wew spring hats, OUR OWN STETSON—BERG CONNECTICUT HAT CO. R. R, ARCADE We carry & most complete line of luggage. Sir Bsme Howard (above) is the new British ambassador to U. 8. He is shown on arrival at New York. LHPDLL882882008800885888880088880.88080080000080000000. i 3 g i Bage:-Allen & Co. DIRECT WIRE—3005—HARTFORD {under | elar |or group of nations which enters the | us | | were | tendency | officer said after the armistice that as General ‘Tank’ and not the | two shillings genius of Marshal Iloch, that turned | mor | the tide against the Germans, “Airplanes will jump over armies | tain speech and attack the directing brains be- [and then a deep voice shouted, “What| RBerlin, March hind. cities is not only justifiable, but will |two bob.” carried out in the next war.! “If you Supply depots and junetion points will HOROWITZ BROS. Successors to Robbin’s Dress Goods Store Miss Alice Palfrey ved on this she's really shows her dre child, the way birthday p:lr!\’ LIVERPOOL IS GLOOMY 1923 Goes Down in History as the Worst Year in Shipping English Port Has Neen | Liverpool, Mareh 7.—~From the| point of view of shipping, 1923 was | about the worst vear Liverpool can remember; the however, Signs | of improvement, for since January 1| there has been a greater demand for | tonnage in many directions, This | was a statement in an address made recently by Sir R. Burton Chadwick, president of the Liverpool Shipping | Staff’s assoclation, g | Continuing his remarks the speaker | said shipowners should endeavor to cheapen operating costs and increase efficiency rather than expeet high | freight and passenger rates, One of the greatest hindrances of the ship- cwner today the extraordinary delay in turning round his ship, com- | Lined with the high port charges, Both those factors were not the result | of high wages, but of poor work for that wage. | The question of carrying British | cargoes in foreign s s was dealt with. on the same occasion by J. H Sharrock, a former director of one |\f“ the big steamship lines, He deplored | the fact that some Rritish shippers | were sending cargoes in foreign ships | and paying their freights to foreign | ship-owners, while many British sea- men were walking the streets, The Liverpool Underwriters Asso- clation alse met in conference a few daye ago, and the president, S8amuel Barker, made a ‘pessimidtic report, The only cheerful feature in the car. go business, he said, Was that there had begn a considerable reduction in the amount of loss suffered through theft and pilferage. It was as yet| impossible to form an accurate esti. | mate of losses to marine under. writers through the Japdanese earth- quake. Trico-Knit Silk in Pencil Stripes —$6.98— BROWN, BLACK AND NAVY SIZES 36 to 52 BASEMENT STORE Bombing of Cities Seen As Feature of Next War Cleveland, March natio soldiers in the next war. | Crowell, assistant secretary of war They Howl and Then They Boo .n..l Derlin, March 7.—German | yare commending th u('lion the Prices of Tickets are ‘v(\ and in returning and industrial undertakings ’HI(UI Samoa to their pre-war owners. s former German colony was given of the languages of Europe. Versailles | Germans, for instance, call them Under tne | “pullmanwagens”; build them in their the present|own shops, and export them to Breslau recently completed 47 such cars on an order from Chile, and these are now on The their way to South America. More are to follow to other South American 1 here in a recent address. tanks, | quick and probably decisive victory. In the neezing or laughing gas, or thetics, | of the fighting. used lees and less as the last | war progressed, and that shows the recently 4 A high ranking German | Gerald Du Maurier Stars,” took it into their heads that] I be all new goods and seasonable. 7.—Belligerent s will not try to kill enemy Benedict former President Wilson; de- league of Nations is faili Crowell. *“The nation vately equipped with gas and alrplanes, will win a next war, governments will to put men temporarily out Death dealing gases | hn. destroyed and the morals of | civilians behind the lines impaired.” EASY T0 REDUCE COST Made Cheaper. 7.—The gallery g of London's theater know how to get and also how to get l.ondon, Mare what they want, rid "of what they howl for, » other they “boo, and they seldom stop either until they | are satistied. = The gallery audience that witnesse the lery were nnly a shilling, Germans A \pplove Return f the Samoan Property pagers| Carrying American Names Hamburg, Germany, March 7.—The word “Pullman” to designate sleeping | cars is making its way into several 2 mandate under dislike, The '|man Samoa bLecame I believe that bombing of | about a shilling gallery? 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