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Show CllllSiWffi 1 DESTROYED i H Were Dropped Over Cliff to Prevent Capture by Enemy. An hirer eating anecdote of t lie Enro-pen Enro-pen ii i-o;;!llr'c was yc. red by s,ani Sharpen, Shar-pen, mana-r nt the Nharrran Auto enm-pNIiy, enm-pNIiy, I'fiil i "'ad iliac u !.-' I ri hu I th, which mm:, hs follow:-; When Serbia h'-u me in o, ved in ihe war .s;.crnlnti.in arose r.y t- the raL- of Ihe Capillar cars which tliat ron n i-y placed turn service at t hf; ho'-ilniiiris of host lilt If s. Now 1 heir fate is known. 'I' hey were ih-sf royerj to prevent their I'.-ihins' into the possesion pos-sesion of the Imsi lie army. A writer In a lending magHZine resetted re-setted that if this Milne had to ho done, then- were i'o An.ericau .small hoys present to witness the -spectacle. For It was indeed a pect.-i.'iilar destruction. de-struction. The in ei hod of dest ruet Ion. as re- ' lated, wfiK to open up (he cars on the road v.nli a rlcht angle turn and a sheer drop nf -fi'i feet to a little Ktrt'fini at tlie hot mm of the chasm. It was a (jreat scheme. A ion?;, cray Cadillac took the hrink like a Trainer hunter. leaping far out over (he edgiv Am the wheels were suddenly sud-denly released from the friction .of ihe road, the cur roared and trembler! hk a live animal during the interval It hun? nprlu-ht by its own momentum. momen-tum. Then it turned its nose downward down-ward and fell true as a plummet until it Htriii'k the steep slope, down which It turned I'pilrk somersaults, the tires hurst ins: with banss that could he heard above the crash, finally rolling Into the stream. A ponderous German limousine followed fol-lowed and thrust its nose into the slope without a spectacular leap. An expensive looking Italian car behaved be-haved (u much the same manner as tho Cadillac. It is to be regret ted that the Cadillacs Cad-illacs so destroyed could not have been forwarded to this country, for the scarcity of Cadillacs Is most no-' no-' ticeable nowadays, so great and increasing in-creasing Is the demand. |