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the President of the Chamber of Deputies was obliged to reply to Mr. 

 Gerault-Rechard who had spoken for those affected by the fatal drama, 

 that the Government shared the anxiety of the public, and that it 

 would try to prevent the recurrence of any such sad accidents, so that 

 probably we shall see no more of such races as this. 



We shall not greatly regret it. These tests have done great service 

 to the constructors and to industry in general, and we shall have no 

 future need of demonstrating that an automobile can go a hundred 

 kilometers an hour when it is exceptionally well constructed and 

 driven b}' an exceptional man. We shall be able to find other and 

 simpler methods of demonstrating the celerity, regularity, and endur- 

 ance which we have a right to demand after the first year of trial of 

 this new locomotion. 



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