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Great pic!!

Charlotte, does the article say in what town the

ride ended? Aleppo, perhaps? "Syria" is kind of

large :-)

The ideal find would be some kind of "Aden Daily

Times," an English-language newspaper published in

Aden, with daily dispatches from some intrepid

reporter following the race. Only problem is,

I have no idea whether any such publication ever

existed. The British administered Aden and the

southern Arabian coast as the Aden Protectorate

from 1836 to 1967. (Aden was the main refueling

stop for steamer traffic to and from India.) I

gather the head office was in Bombay. And of

course they had their fingers in everywhere else

along the Persian Gulf. Iraq and Syria were

under more direct Ottoman control, but

the French were doing alot of running around

Lebanon and Syria. The British had also taken

formal control of Egypt in 1882, but, as I

said, Aden reported to Bombay.

Linda B. Merims

Massachusetts, USA