PART PLAYED Y RAILWAYS
IN WAR WHEN ARMIES
ADVANCE OH RETREAT
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As In several other important con
siderations on the material side,
Germany foresaw more clearly than
did France or Russia the great part
that would be played by, the railway
In the event of a general European
war, and, as a consequence, she en
tered upon the present struggle W'th
a system of strategic lines which was
not only incomparably superior to
that of her enemies to the east and
west, but also one that hus proved
more nearly equal to the demands
made upon It than the German army,
the German navy, or even the effic
ient German munition factories.
France’s railway system might bsst
be described as resembling the spokes
of a wheel radiating from l'nris as
a hub. There were fairly adequate
provisions in 1914 for rushing troops
to her German frontier, but not for
if tewing them to the lino \>heru her
f- rtler marched with tha; of llol
g'um, or for moving thorn hack end
forth behind the line from the North
Sea to Sw t zerbu.d, w^ere the western
front was finally established.
Germany's railway system, on the
other hand, might be described as a
cobweb, with its outermost strands
reaching to her frontiers, about which
the spider—her army—could move
freely to attack or defend. It In
eluded all the line3 that were essen
tial to a complete and efficient com
mercial railway system, with the ad
dition of a number that need never
have been built if normal exig ncies
alone bad been considered.
Germany built up an excellent mo
tor truck system, but kept the railway
as the “wheel horse." France bank
ed heavily on the motor truck and
failed to build adequate strategic
.railways. Just how much of a price
France has paid for this neglect it *s
impossible to say, hut it is conceiv
able that the existence of such a sys
tem might well have made It possible
for her to have forced the establish
ment of the present front well inside
if Bi lgium and very close to, if not
across, the Alsatian frontier.
In railway destruction and recon
struction the war has developed no'h
ing especially new. Bombings from
the air have been the merest pi .a
I ricks, effective only when trains
were derailed or stations wreck d.
The vulnerable parts of a line are it
tunnels, bridges, and culverts, and
the dynamiting of these is the l:i3
work of the rear guard of a retreat
ing army. If there is time, this Is
fallowed by the tearing up of the rail
and ties. The rails are then thrown
on fires made from the piled ties, *he
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MULES WITH TAIL LIGHTS.
Ludicrous as it may seem, necessity
has demanded that a Los Angeles
drover equip his mules with tail lights.
Without being facetious, it may not be
amiS3 to point out that the devices
he employes are literally the first real
tall lights to be used. Some time ago
when a number of the man's mules
were being driven along the highway
at night, a motor car plunged into the
drove with disastrous results. This
caused the dealer to resort to the
warning lights so as to avoid similar
accidents in the future. The device3,
which are identical to those used on
many bicycles, are strapped to the
mules' tails. When the glare from the
lamps of a motor car 3trikes them,
beams of ruby light are reflected. In
cidently if o mule swings his tail, the
warning signal becomes the mon
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Freeda Alexson, plaintiff, vs. Cus
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The President of the United States
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ant above named, Greeting:
You aro hereby summoned and re
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from the 13th day of January, 1917,
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defendant upon the grounds of will
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dnnt, and for such other relief as the
court may deem proper, as prayed for
In said complaint filed In the office
of the clerk of the above-entitled
court.
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lication of this summons Is December
3, 1916; the date of the first pub
lication is December 2. 1916, and the
date of the Ia3t publication is Jan
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Witness the Honorable J. R. Tuck
er, judge of the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Second Di
vision, and the seal of said court af
fixed hereto at Nome, Alaska, this
2nd day of December, 1916.
(Court seal.) G. A. ADAMS,
Clerk of the District Court, Territory
' ef Alaska. Second Division.
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heat of which warps and twists them
beyond further usefulness. When
steel tics are used, as on most of the
new light railways near the front, the
destruction of the rails Involves mare
time and trouble, as fuel for the lires
has then often to be brought from a
distance.
The Belgians made rather a poor
job of their railway destruction, and
the Gormans, prepared to the minute
igainst every contingency, wcro hard
ly more than thrown out of their
stride by it.
The Serbs, on their line along the
Vardar, performed a far completer
work of destruction than did the hard
pressed Belgians. The almost endless
succession of bridges and tunnels and
its great amount of rock work ren
dered this line especially susceptible
to a systematic tearing to pieces, and
it has recently become known that
the resourceful Serbs accomplished
this most effectually.—Popular Me
chanics.
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