Show PHONE WIRE 4 PLA PLAYS YS GREAT ROLE IN WAR Becomes Apparent Miles Behind Behind Behind Be Be- hind Battle Front Strung Along Variety of Objects i WIRELESS ALSO IS IS USED 4 Each French Army Corps Has f Its Us Own Equipment Which Is Set Up in Few Minutes m r Jul July 31 The 31 The rob role rolo played b by byj j p. p PARIS telephone hono wire wh In the tho war war war-to to say ay thIng of tho the barbed variety varlet that pro- pro l J Elects a nearly battle front front front- hs Is t prodigious Iou It becomes apparent miles behind the lines strung along all thc the routes lending leading to 0 commanding post through fields and nd forests on tree os poles fence fenc posts roofs roots towers r windmills straw stacks forming a network of or communications In which only the trained lineman can 8 see e system tem r tem and or order er With aircraft the tale tele- phone wire has largely replaced recon- recon r I l 1 parties artle and There Is scarcely a skirmish battle or artil- artil ten attack In fn which the wire doesn't participate sometimes In co operation with aeroplanes sometimes without Every ery corps of or the lr French arm army has hns hasa a ft certain number of motor car elo- elo phone shops each equipped with two complete telephone Installations with four tour miles of ot wire who and an adequate I number of ot ground stakes and forked pickets that mn may be stuck In the bayonet bayo bayo- 0 net socket ot of a rifle serving sen as a temporary tem tern pole Wireless Equipment n Ready Each of these thele outfits has hns also Its wireless 1 equipment with antennas to roach rench a n height of sixty feet teet anti and a dy dynamo dy- dy namo connected with the motor of the thear car ar to furnish tho current It requires only a few tew minutes from arrival of the the car to set up the wireless outfit and put it in operation The enemy's enem's artillery Is constant constantly on the watch for tor thc these se motoring wire men and occasionally occa- occa gets them f. f Their work worl enables observers ers to utilize utilize uti uti- lize captive balloons and every even point of trees vantage vantage trees housetops towers windmills straw stacks or extension posts raised by windlass fifty feet teet In Inthe Inthe inthe the air and telephone Information to officers or to batt batteries rles posted miles be be- be hind Perhaps the tho most effective e work r of all Is done lone b by the wireless outfits i enable airmen to send back precise pre pre- else cise Information as ns to the location of ot batteries concentrations the enemy's or of or troops Tho wire and the telephone are the first tint objects of at search when tho the enem enemy occupies a town or building At Corna Com Com- a on their march south after the tho first care caro of the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans was to cut all the wires and destroy de do stroy stray air alf the telephone and telegraphic In Wires Vire In Advance o of Arm Arm- Army jr The Germans are arc said to have wired Ired the entire quarry region between the Aisne and the tho Olse through their se secret e e- e t. t cret agents b before tore the war At t nn any rate wherever the French havo have n ad advanced advanced ad- ad In that region the they sa say the they have ha found evidences e of long for wire communication Carm farm buildings building cottages cottageR mills mitis etc oc occupied occupied oc- oc h by spies and the timo German bat bat- teries telles Tho fhe atory Is told of oC an Infantry picket pick pick- et CL arriving at an nn Isolated farmhouse a In that region and finding an nn old woman wom- wom i an an seemingly alone The They asked t tf br r water and food lood She Sho swore ore she had nothing and Insl Insisted that It was useless i to search P- P Reluctantly she preceded the soldiers to the cellar where there was nothing but hUt a few tew hogsheads 8 standing l on end them thorn bigger cr and higher than the rest arou aroused ed the curiosity of or the sergeant in charge chan e o of tho the part party In approaching he had the forethought o to level his revolver re at the top and thus got the drop on on a man manIn In Inside with a r revolver olver In one ono hand and w a a telephone In the other All AU the other tho hogsheads contained d batteries r Han lIaN f t Tho The Gazette tie tic la In Bourse of at Petrograd Petrograd Petro- Petro grad tells a story of a who was va as the only Russian living when a aPost apost apost Post was wa captured by the Germans 1 HU Huddling In his hole holo protected b by sandbags he lie telephoned to the artillery artillery artillery artil artil- lery to fire directly at him and they I would get et the Germans TIme The battery changed its aim accordingly anti and the transmitted the result of the fire fhe as coolly as If It he were not the target Shells Sheila rained upon the place and tho the Germans were repulsed leaving leav bay ing dead When the thc Russians r reOccupied reoccupied re- re occupied the 1 position the they found the I t still unharmed In his hla hole f Projectors and aircraft ordered from Ypres b by wireless played a n great role I In tho the first battle of ot Ypres The Tho air air- The men nien were able to ascertain Just jUHt what troops troop the Germans were bringing up J While the projectors arrived Just In tIm time to discover er the tho Prussian Guards I attempting a 0 surprise attack and to enable the British to cut them up L Errors In the transmission of ot orders I Ian and an Information by wire sometimes oc ocCUr occur oc- oc Cur cur and the they are arc generally serious A mIstake in tho tim translation of a Wire Wire- j I its s message Is reported on one occasion occasion occa occa- sion to have havo caused the to re retire retire re- re tire Uro from Cae Cassol sol to losing hosing i them their position which the French occupied 4 t |