M. André Citroën, "French Henry Ford," received last week a nasty, grating, jerky jolt. His Trans-African Citroën Co., formed to finance a trans-Sahara route from Colomb-Bechar, southern terminus of the Algerian railways, to Timbuktu (distance of nearly 1,700 miles) was suddenly brought to an untimely end.
The route was to have been traversed in nine days by special Citroen auto mobiles, equipped with caterpillar tractors. Along the route M. Citroën had erected many cheap hotels where native jazz bands were to have amused the transient guests. M. Citroën, highly optimistic, had once...
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