Show Trucks r rucks Replace Cavalry on 6 Great Eastern Easten Battle Front Rubber R Rubber bb r Tired Horse Changes Military Tactics and Snatches I E 4 Russi Russians ns From Maw of German Horde I I In Tn n all of af the chapters upon war fPm fim the time of Phillip of Macedon A t to there is 18 nothing that off off off of- of f rs so so interesting a study as the tho ther r Armored armored car It came into its own for t. the first time Ime in Galicia but a few L days days al ago o. o From this time on the mill mill- mili-j mili 1 tary Instructors will have to revise teachings and their tactics to tit fit tine the the h Innovation no It is true that the I armored car came along in to Belgium In inthe the the early days when the forts at Li Liege ge I were preventing a speedy remaking of the worlds world's map But they came then thena's as a's independent factors which played about the fringes of the war game without definite place In Galicia they were regularly fitted into place as coordinating units In a general scheme as powerful aids I Ito to the Infant Infantry and as the most Important important Im im- protection for stranded artillery artillery artil artil- I lery that the brain of man has as yeti yet et J devised de It was no fault of theirs that the motor cars did not save lave the Russian artillery They did their part j They did it wonderfully well weli with th the most scientific accuracy and with reu results its that have e made old arm army of- of facers revise revie their l ideas le about rear guard fighting Had the Russian In- In in- in fantry been faithful to lt It its f trust the armored cars would have ha saved sa every I gun GALICIA FAR AWAY The distance to Galicia Is II great There are men on the battle fronts I closer to h home me who are closer to heart So the popular mind has paid little tittle attention to the performances of oC the motors because It did not travel farenough far farenough farenough I enough from the more familiar scenes i the more more- familiars familiar names and the men menI men who are more closel closely connected with I I our Western estern life Americans thought of Galicia chiefly as a land that contained contained contained con con- I small towns which had gone amu amuck k in the I alphabet seeking names names names' that suggested the arrangement of aset a aset set Bet of books In an Infantile asylum j for or the weak minded The fact that three entire armies I armies In every sense of the word word i excepting that the they lacked a concentrated concentrated concentrated concen- concen I command were command were ad advancing v v overa over n a l front as wide as all from New York to Baltimore did not seem to make much impression in III this country But It fell to the lot of this advance the the first that the Rus Russians made mach after aftel Alexander K F. Kerensky came to the virtual lI W of t aw re realm lm I I k t to prove to the soldiers soldiers' o 0 oC C Cl 1 1 lands I I l that an automobile with a game chauffeur j and a 11 proper armament is worth I its weight in real gold Nobody seemed to realize that any particular attention had been paid to tot the equipment of these thes new Russian I armies The public read the names i of ot unpronounceable towns which they I passed on their eastward sweep with languid interest Suddenly the name of ot Locker Lampson Lamp Lamp- I son on began to trouble the wires Lampton Lampson Lamp Lamp- son ton surety surely bore no Russian I mic What could he be doln doing along I Ithe the Illio with men whose names were formed of consonants on a spree were ON WITH THE FLEET Lampson had brought along the l I British m motor tor ears ars They were ot of small use on th the western front where where the armies are deadlocked In trenches II with the allies alUc trying trying- to squirm out of a a. system of ot fighting that the GerI German Germans Germans Ger Ger- I mans man wished upon them at the out out- set Even the British who developed I the American Idea Ille-a. did not attach any great importance to the scheme i Cavalry horses hones had been eating their heads hads off art without an any I chance to add to to- the to-the the gayety of ot nations and andt cavalrymen had hall been doing dismounted j Infant Infantry duty And now a rubber tired caval cavalry 11 has i come to make a new place place- in martial i study and in war history and fiction I Regardless of the h fact tact that three Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- Rus sian fronts were in act action n. n that a Macedonian front claimed some Home atten- atten I atten-I I Non that Mesopotamia offered some i attraction that Egypt and East Africa and and the Hol Holy Land lan wt were rc still on the the map the reading leading public settled back buck I II I to consider th the e French Z-rench fro front t with its stalemate A IU ii the only one soot stool on thai face of the earth worthy of consider consider- atlon Out of It all chugs the motor car with engine going full tilt with the pilot push pushing In it over heavy roads to protect a routed army and with guns of considerable size checking Infantry and cavalry until the field artillery of the the- Germans might come to life The purpose of a rear guard In such Buch sucha Bucha a a. case Is to protect the retreat of the I main body It must check hold up harass and delay the advancing foe In I any orderly army the rear guard for tor such a lar large e fighting force torce would have held all three arms the Infantry the artillery and the caval cavalry But the infantry of the Russians was I in panic Artillery without supporting troops is as helpless as a babe The cavalry was by I no no means sufficient for tor forthe forthe the task before It SENDS FOR LAMPSON The commander in chief sent for Lampson They have a cut through our r lines on ona ona 3 a front o O of fifteen i miles he said If I they are not not checked checked they will get behInd ben be- be I h hInd n nd our fl and cut the line of re retreat retreat retreat re- re treat and that spells ruin for us and us-and and for tor Russia Hussla w That is where Lampson Jumped into I the mile fifteen-mile breech to make a name for himself and a place for all future wars for the armored motor car His I scheme was simple He picked the best beat roads leading toward the enemy well knowing that the advancing columns would pick the best and most direct rOll routes tell Then he ran his motors I straight back for the foe Coe The guns mounted on hi hm hix cars had more mor range I than thun th the infantry could d d ma make mak k The machine mit- mit chine suns guns they canted were poison polson to any e cavalry I As th Hi lour field fi columna hove hOVEl in sight Ight Lampson let loose the guns I from his chugging machines which were kept going like the machines that our New fW York gunmen t se se when taking taking tak tak- I In ing part in a a. criminal affair that re requires requires requires re- re quires a speedy getaway without undue undue un undue un- un due notice to the police The German Germon Infantry went to cover along the road and signaled for a light battery to tomake tomake tomake make the going hard for tor the fife rubber tired cavalry But the gasoline g horses could outrun the hay burners and when the artillery got around to the head of the column I the motor cars had back to the next station where the advance I could be held up Once a German cavalry cavalry alry airy outfit ran afoul of the machine guns and little rapid It fled precipitately So the eight cylinder mounts kept plug plugging away all along the roads until until un un- til they had so delayed the Germans that the they could not use the mile fifteen gap to its full tun advantage They probably probably obi ably cheated Germany German out of ot prisoners As for tor the Russian guns the fleeing I Infantry cut the gun horses out and used them for tor flight If the thC Infantry I had done Its part the artillery could I have pulled back Its runs guns under the rear guard protection of the motor cars The whole thrilling sto story gives to the j i w orid oid anew i L new w war picture a new element element ele- ele j ele-j i ment In the fighting game It puts the automobile makers along with the I I ruDDs as factors In to arm army equipment 1 |