Show FRANCES STARTLINfi PLAN fOR rUE INVASION Of ERMANYO With an Army Moving Swiftly in Automobiles She Would Rush Berlin Before the Kaisers Troops Were AwakeAutomobiles Ordered in Vast Numbers Paris March HThc automobile fever has taken a new and sensational turn The gossips of the cafes and boulevards have forgotten for awhile ± the Interminable topic of the exposition exposi-tion What Is the great fair In comparison com-parison with the glorious Idea l that has Y just had Its birth In the French War office and which It Is proposed shall wipe out that almost Indelible strain on the tricolor the overrunning of France by the Germany army It Is to be done by means of automobiles If war with Germany were to bo 1 declared tomorrow the only thing that would prevent the famous cry of On to Berlin Ber-lin becoming this time a prelude to a sweeping success Is the lack of horseless horse-less carriages Flied away In the Intelligence In-telligence departments receptacle for a documents and maps of the greatest importance to the republic la a com v pjotc plan for a horseless carriage mmpalgn with Berlin for its objective point It haa been ascertained through agents of the department who have scoured the country and made inquiries Jn every town village and hamlet of France that there are just 3136 automobiles auto-mobiles in the country including the public conveyances delivery wagons and private carriages of individuals l Each of these conveyances would hold at least four persons At a pinch and pinches are the essence of the contract con-tract In time of war six or eight or even ten men could be crowded Into an automobile constructed to carry only four Tlhs moans that a maximum of i COOOO and a minimum of 15000 men could be rushed over the frontier In a few hours with arms ammunition and camping equipment Such an army unless the plan of the Intelligence department de-partment prows In practice to POHSOHS flaws that the theorists have not pro vided against would be fore formidable formida-ble than any body of cavalry could be for at its highest speed the automobile can easily bent the horse and besides does not got fagged out The only week point that the cafe Generals have so far after two whole days eager discussion of the proposition proposi-tion boon able to find in the horseless carriage plan of campaign Is that automobiles auto-mobiles must keep J to the roads and bv blocking these the enemy could very easily slay the piflgress of the horse less army Cavalry would be able to surmount such obstacles or get around by taking to the fields The answer of the experts to this objection Is that the automobile Is merely I intended to convey the army as far and as quickly as possible They would it is claimed move so fast that before organized opposition could block their way the army would be already far advanced In the direction of the German capital At the tjrst sign of a check the soldiers voulcr pour out of the automobiles take positions storm and remove the barriers If posslblo and thenceforth repeat the operation as long as their progress was barred The problem of advance in the face of opposition Is one easily possible of solution The real objection to the French Intelligence departments plan for Invading Germany Is precisely the same as that which has proved so Insurmountable In-surmountable in the case of the armored trains in South Africa It Is aVery a-Very simple matter for a quickly moving mov-ing mobile force to get In the rear of the long column of automobiles blowup blow-up the road or otherwise destroy It and then where would the automobiles be With their line of retreat cut as surely sJs that of the armored train when the rails have born pulled up the invading In-vading army would find l Its mobility gone or at least disabled l until icoairs could be made to the road while In front and on iaoh 1 flank an attacking fore would appear The counter I I argument to this stunning objection Is that the Intelligence i department depart-ment plan provides for the automobile au-tomobile column to be accompanied accom-panied by a mounted force whose duty it I would be to protect the Hanks and I perform scout duty while the horseless carriages rushed the Infantry forward I Even if the automobiles outraced the I horses It Is argued It would not matter mat-ter for the cavalry would be following I sufllciently close behind to check any hostile attempt to get In the rear of the advance I The swiftness of the movements of such a body of men as that the French Propose to launch against Germany in the event of war cannot be questioned There would be no necessity for going Into camp at night The soldiers would sleep and cat in the conveyances and there being no hordes there would be no one to consider but the men It would be equlvalijut to a large force moving by I rail YVItfc all the speed and mobility I of such a force this one could go byroads by-roads undefended because no enemy I would be expected to invade by them I unless with such cumbrous train as to give notice days ahead of his appearance appear-ance at any given polnL The Government olllclals have given orders for the manufacture of vast numbers of automobiles for military use showing that they at least have unlimited faith In the horseless carriage car-riage > plan invasion They have also notified the owners of large I numbers automobiles that In the event of war these will be icqulsltloned 1 It is now Germanys turn to devise a means of meeting this new departure In the war game She certainly cannot afford to ignore It and the greatest of all mlli tfirv nations can be trusted to find the right guard for the new blow |