From Our Berlin Correspondent.
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I hear that the Servian Government ions acquired nine heavy lorries of a Jewies make for army-transport work. !deem's. Saurer do push ahead, don't
Responsibility of Cab Owners TheSupreme Court of Hamburg has eiven judgment to the effect that a eab owner is liable for injuries sustained by a person who may have been invited by the hirer to "jump in and have a ride." In his defence, the a:viler denied contract between himself and the injured " guest," hut the C• Ant held that the contract with the I irer covered also any friends whom he might take out for a drive. Tins judgment serves to show to what an .extent liability is carried in Germany. What motorcab owners think of the decision can better be imagined than described. The cab which came to erief was a self-propelled vehicle.
The German Subvention Run. The last report heir the lorries more or less buried in a snowdrift between and Landeshut, and seemingly
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booked " for a long and discrediting szanfIstill. But, as a Prussian noncommissioned officer once observed to nie,•' Beim militaer muss alle.s gehen! ;Everything must ' go ' in the army) " ; and go the columns did eventually, reaching Landeshut in the dead of night, with soldiers and drivers dead-beat, after a prodigiously strenuous journey lasting some 16 hours. Anybody who has tackled snowbound country roads at night-time will he in a position to appreciate the performauces of the ponderous lorries and trailers. In very truth, the German War Office are not giving subventionplaques away! Neither of the Ttatingen makes, however, turned up at
Landesilut ; and 1 fear that the Gesellscha ft will have to try again next year. The Bfisehig '• train " seems to have done most of the " donkey work " in that memorable fight lent' snow, ice and cutting heath% hats, often forcing a road where another make stuck fast. In view of the trying experiences west of Landeeinct, the columns did not start until about mid-day for Breslau, which was reached withoet mishap late in the evening, although the roads were terribly heavy. At Sehweidnitz, halfway on the road, a rich manufacturer, himself an enthusiastic motorist, entertained the whole party at luncheon. The Breslau-Lis.sa stage did not trouble the at much. When at Lissa, they were the object of considerable curiosity on the part of the townspeople, who freely expressed their wonderment at such vehicles getting through the snowdrifts. Equally uneventful proved also the Lissa-Posen stage. the way being short and comparatively easy. From Posen the lorries proceeded straight, in a north-westerly direction, to Sehneiclemiihl, instead of travelling eastwards to Bromberg and then westwards to Schneidemfild; in other words the programme had to be modified in consequence of the previous invnluntary stoppages. Nothing of note occurred during the negotiation of the Schneidemiihl stage. Happy the column that has no history: By the time this brief note gets into print the columns will have borne down upon a point a few miles to the north of Berlin, and swept northwards on their western circuit, in knurl terminates near Berlin. All the leading makes are behaving magnificently.