Evening star., 1927-11-06
AUTOMOBILE FORCING ITS WAY
INTO FAR CORNERS OF EARTH
Modern Means of Transportation Winning
Favor in Lands Long Regarded as Jungle
Territory, Figures Show.

ger cars. This country suffers from
the usual want of roads. so common
to many Asiatic countries, although
Persia. one of its neighbors, has q
registration of about $500 cars. Irau,
or Mesopotamia, lying to the west OF
Persia. and now a British mandate
from the League of Nations. has
more than $500 cars and trucks.
Colonial possessions and other de-
tendencies show q wide variation.
even in cases where they belong 10
one state. In the case of France.
Morocco has a total Of some 10000
cars, while French Somaliland has
but 81 automobiles and French
Guiana An exact 100. Reunion Island.
where ADD ell Krin, leader of the up
rising in Morocco in 1925 and 1926
was exiled. has a registration which
numbers 79S cars.
Record in British Dependencies.
In the case of British dependencies.
some further interesting figures are
brought to light. British Somaliland
has a registration of 10 cars. British
Guiana has LOO cars. while British
Southwest Africa has approximately
730 automobiles. Malta, the small is
land between Italy and Africa in
the Mediterranean Sea. has more
than 200 cars registered.
1t is interesting to note that China.
the country which has the largest
population in the world. has but 49,
900 automobiles. Many of these are
owned by foreign residents.
Another large country. one which
before the war ranked as one of the
world powers and which today stands
with the eyes OF the world fixed
upon it. also is very backward from
the standpoint of automotive trans
portation. That country Is Russia,
With a population greater than that
of any other European country, Rus-
sia has but slightly more than 2l,O00
motor cars. approximately one to
every 5000 inhabitants.
Some interesting registration figures
are brought to light when examining
those for states of South America.
The largest number is to be found In
Argentina. where there are more than
222 900 cars. while the smallest number
is to be found in Paraguay. where
but I'll automobiles are in use.
Registrations in Bolivia total but
slightly more than 1000 cars, while
in Ecuador the total amounts to not
much more than 1.100. The other
states range mostly between 5000 and
2O. 900, with the exception of Brazil.
where there are about S1.1O0 cars in
operation.
Gibralter Registers 577 Cars.
The famed Rock of Gibraltar, known
as the guardian to the entrance of the
Mediterranean Sea, has an automobile
registration of SIT cars. while Hong
kong, also a British possession, has
1879 automobiles registered.
The smallest number Of registra-
tions in the North American Hemis-
phere is in a French possession, the
Island of st. Pierre, off the south coast
of Newfoundland. Here "a automO-
biles are to be found. all of them
trucks. They are used mainly in con-
nection with the extensive fisheries
there.
In contrasting these figures with
those of even some Of the smaller
cities of the United States, an interest
ing comparison may be drawn. Some
Of our largest cities show registra-
ton figures which are larger than
those Of any country outside Europe
and exceeded only by two or three
countries i'm Europe, while the smaller
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