Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-21 | Page 2 | Army of Workers on the French Front to Support the Gallant Men behind the Guns

11 It 1 I Army of Workers on the French Front I 1 I To Support the Gallant Men Behind the Guns i iI iI iI iT e Ak uL r 5 I 1 i fi I ri riS I S P Wis S. S k St S i I e f A W T T T-k T w I r L 4 t tc f d- d c v Ar v y i The recent experience o of the United States engineers near Cambrai when many of or them dropped shovels sho Rn and spades to sel c guns lIns and tI fight ht side sido b by side with their British allies emphasizes sizes the fact faN that an arm army of or workers i is If needed constantly constant to supplement nt an army of fighters The Tho upper tipper picture pic shows show in iii striking silhouette tte a detail of sappers secured by the British and Canadian recruiting mission returning at night after a n. hard days day's work consolidating con con- gains on the French front The lower photograph apparently doesn't show th the bone dry r. r district because Tommy lomm Is Js resting under a a. load o of corkscrews These are arc not u used Ed for tor bottles but as posts upon which to han hang barbed wire for the th famous barbed wire entanglements Pound Pounding Ins In a post is not only hard work hut but nol noisy y work 3 as well and i is apt to at attract attract at- at tract the unwelcome attentions of or the German snipers and machine gun un pill pillboxes pillboxes boxes boxe so Tomm Tommy laboriously but si silently si- si I- I screws these corkscrews Into the ground and then strings hl hH his barbed barbe wire between them The Insert at the left is a striking silhouette of an antiaircraft antiaircraft antiaircraft anti anti- aircraft gun at twilight guarding the workers and the thc fighters from German aeroplanes Among the men urgently urgent wanted by the inland waterways and locks docks section of oC the Imperial royal en engineers engineers engineers en- en are aro blacksmiths boat builders carpenters caulkers drillers frame benders heavy n helpers pile pUe drivers quarrymen quarry- quarry men riggers and their mates I seamen shipwrights ship shipyard ud machinists machin ISIs hits and stevedores ore between the ages of 41 Hand and DC iG G. G A sapper who ranks as private ate receives receiveR 76 cents per da day a alance alance lance corporal 84 8 cents cent a second corporal corporal corporal cor cor- 1 l. l a corporal 1 08 and a sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant 51 28 and all get free transportation tion to the point of enlistment