During the night we ran the three hundred and fifty kilometres which separate Yarkand from Kothan.

Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan cover more than one million one hundred thousand square kilometres and have less than nine hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom even now, after ten years, less than a third are under the effective control of Italy.

The Canadian line measures five thousand kilometres, the Central Union, five thousand two hundred and sixty, the Santa Fe line, four thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, the Atlantic Pacific,

We are going a hundred kilometres an hour.

During that month we had come only about 110 kilometres, and had descended nearly 150

Even though Dr. K.S.K. to my sheer amazement once bragged that the Prime Minister's private secretary telephoned him while he was shaving just that morning (to compliment him on the day's "excellent" editorial), fact was that NT rarely traveled 35 kilometres to Margao before 8 or 9 in the morning.

A fraud undertaken on such conditions, a fraud extending over six thousand kilometres, a fraud of a thousand francs on the Grand Transasiatic Company and its agents.

I took him to imply kilometres, as being a Finn he would not speak of versts.

Consulting my map, I discovered Jouyle-Chatel to be at what I judged a safe distancenearly thirty kilometres and considerably south of Paris.

Bulgaria had a territorial extension of 113,809 square kilometres; she has now lost about 9,000 square kilometres.

" "Out there" one was glad to sleep three hours on the hard ground, or once in a month of Sundays on a wisp of straw, glad to turn out at three o'clock in the morning and warm up by marching thirty kilometres with a knapsack on one's back, sweating freely for eight or ten hours at a time....

I was about to cross the countries which were formerly ravaged by Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, those fabulous countries of which the Russians in 1886 possessed six hundred and fifteen thousand square kilometres, with thirteen hundred thousand inhabitants.

The Russian traveler went by Keria, Nia, Tchertchen, as we are doing so easily, but then his caravan had to contend with much danger and difficultywhich did not prevent his reporting ten thousand kilometres of surveys, without reckoning altitude and longitude observations of the geographical points.

However, the hills gradually sank into a level plain, and the river carried us through it at a rate that enabled us during the remainder of the day to reel off thirty-six kilometres, a record that for the first time held out promise.

One I saw twenty-six kilometres outside of Meaux and one at Bouneville.

The country through which the Tarim slowly flows had already been visited by Fathers Hue and Gabet, the explorers Prjevalski and Carey up to the Davana pass, situated a hundred and fifty kilometres to the south.

A careful calculation, based on practical experiences, shows that, in order to average 20 to 22 kilometres a daythe minimum distance required from an armyno column on a road ought to exceed a length of about 25 kilometres This consideration determines the depth of the army corps on the march, since in an important campaign and when massing for battle troops seldom march in smaller bodies than a corps.

It is said that a bomb weighing scarcely ten kilometres can annihilate everything within a radius of two thousand feet."New

The first day we shifted camp a kilometre and a half to the foot of this series of rapids.

I crept two kilometres like that until I found a dressing-station.

They believed, but were not sure, that the enemy had been driven back many kilometres between Nieuport and Dixmude.

1 in 50,000 metres means that 1 centimetre on the map equals a run of 50,000 metres; 2 centimetres equal a kilometre or 100,000 metres; 8 kilometres equal five English miles.

The strength of the artillery must be regulated according to that of the infantry, in such a way that the entire marching depth does not exceed some 25 kilometres.