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Show 'TIP' FOR KAISER TO HQPW1N WAR New British Juggernauts Can Be Stopped and Stopped Dead Still. IS PROVED IN UTAH Suggestion, if Adopted, Will Improve Roads of the Beehive State. Sy W. D. EISHEL. There is no intention on the part of the writer to disobey President Wilson's Wil-son's warning for all good Americans to obey strictly the laws of neutrality in relation to the big disturbance that is now going on in Europe. The writer should not bo considered pio-German pio-German by tho pro-ally residents of Salt Lake because he is giving Gei-manv Gei-manv a tip which may help the kaiser win 'battles on the iSoniuie front in northern France. it just so happens that Germany is the country which can take advantage of a little inside information on the caterpillar tractors which, according to British advices, created such havoc with the prince of Bavaria's battalions during the past week. Obstacles No Bar. The press dispatches, supplemented bv the military clitics' stories from the Nomine front, tell of the wonderful machines tho British have invented which slowlv crawl forward regardless of the efforts of the Teutonic forces to stop them. Such things as trenches, trees, stone walls, rivers and other obstacles ob-stacles arc like a paved street to an automobile as far as the progress of these machines is concerned. Incidentally Incident-ally these machines are equipped with machine guns, small cannon and other inventions of destruction which greatlv multiply the number of German Ger-man willows and orphans as the new juggernaut, goes forward. It is learned by the same press dispatches dis-patches that the wonderful machine is nothing more nor less than a common American caterpillar tractor such as is seen in great numbers doing peaceable traction work in many sections of this country. Can Be Stopped. Without any intention of iet I'acl ing from the ahiiily of these caterpillars, the writer wishes to slate they can bo stopped. What is more they can bo (Continued on Following Page. 5 'TIP' FOB KAISER TO HELP Wlil WAR (Continued From Preceding Page.) stopped so effectively that there is no chance for them to go forward. There are at least two places in Utah where they can be stopped and have been stopped. One is the mud on the Wen-dovcr Wen-dovcr flats and the other is a certain wash about thirty miles north of Ka-nab. Ka-nab. Tn building the Wendover cutoff cut-off one of these tractors was used to construct about twenty-eight miles of the road. Then came two miles of real mud and the tractor just refused to go. All efforts on the part of E. R. Morgan, state highway engineer, and S. D. Evans, chairman of the citizens ' committee, which has charge of this work, together with County Road Supervisor Su-pervisor Mathews and several others, failed to get the caterpillar to make any progress forward through the Wendover mud. Wash Is a Terror. The other case is the bad wash, a photo of which appears in another part of the automobile section of The Tribune. Trib-une. The recent Tribune tour to the Grand canyon encountered this wash and was held up for about four hours to get the eight cars across this particular par-ticular spot in the road to Kanab. Behind Be-hind the party was a caterpillar loaded with freight from Marysvalc to Kanab and the distance up to this wash was made without diflieully. iBut the wash stopped the caterpillar and stopped it still. A passage way was built across the wash. Now if one of the numerous German consular agents in America will come to Utah and get a few train loads of that Wendover mud and pick up that .1 ohnson canyon wash and carry these bodily to Germany in one of those merchant mer-chant submarines and place them in front of the British juggernauts, Ihe writer will guarantee the taid new tangled tan-gled British war machines will stop and stop still. Also it will improve ft ah roads, and this is the real rpa-son rpa-son for passing this tip along to Germany. Ger-many. , |