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Show WOMEN PILOT LIGHT TRUCKS IN FRANCE Apart from the Paris municipality, women drivers have not been employed to any extent in the French service-There service-There are no rases of private firms u'-'ing women chauffeurs. The army officially has admitted women lo drive light trucks, touring cars and Ambulances, bnt the experiment has not been a great sue-cess, sue-cess, and the fact that a man nearly always al-ways is attached to the car at the same time to crank It, wash it arid attend to it mechanically makes the change one of very doubtful economy. Attempts have been made by the army to employ Asiatic troops as truck drivers with very unsatisfactory unsatis-factory results. After a long training In the army fnhools the inefficiency of these men was reveaJed by an accident list .ro per cent greater than that shown by the worst Europea n drivers. It was after this experience, and still with a vipw to c-onomy of labor, that women were admitted to drive army cars. MaUer appear ins on tbe anunobi)e psge I putillei, u bo. bnt unlr thm recent Uw piund by txrojcrnm Is i ll! find bji tTTtis-loj; tTTtis-loj; bK-iijse lb dealers rDitinfJ carry a ad la isoLhr,' uLrt nt Ltae pipvr. In do caaue i-ro |