Show WORK OF SIGNAL CORPS IN WA WAR official reports show wonderful service rendered during struggle HAD MILES OF WIRE special form of wire made and many telephone and telegraph stations were set up in france washington official clat reports on sig annl tit corps equipment for tile tho war made public show that one special form of telephone wire unknown to commer plat use before the war was nas being turned out atthe at the rate of miles at p month at a cost of nearly when the armistice was signed the american telegraph find and telephone hobb system in franco france totaled DO 00 miles when tile lighting fighting ended this his being the lie semi permanent in when fighting was ft as at its ts peak the corps was approximating the use of miles of outpost wire a month lit in addition one development of 0 tho the war being the he necessity of two wire whre circuits for front line operations to prevent the enemy from listening in on tho the old stylo style single wire equipment wire wastage was enormous as it t had to bo be abandoned whenever nn advance was made of special design there them had been set up oil in france lost last november Nov elliber american telephone each exchanges anges with liml l lines reaching to stations H liven won the tha telephone instruments used wore of 0 special design combining hoth telephonic and telegraphic tion and the alie production of these lit in tile the quantity needed was a problem in itself at tho the close of hostilities the united states had 11 fully equip ped telegraph stations lit in france which were handling ft a dally average ivern RB ot of messages or of GO 60 words worda each during the last days ot of tho the fighting or within about of the peak load an instance ot of tho the enormous domand doland don den n that developed for lenses for which before the war largely were obtained from germany ties lies in tile lio work of tho lie rausch bausch and i loral 1 company of rochester N Y yi rin ich N v beginning with it capacity of 1800 pairs of lold field glasses a year in 1914 had reached nil output of pairs it week in november 1018 and was then ti alining lining toward no an output of pairs it week by iby january 1019 similar expansions or of facilities were necessary tn lit many dimny other plants tile requirement of tile lie forces in prance france fr for tile tho six power artillery glass alone was pairs and pain were shipped from the united states motion picture photography tile tho report devotes considerable space to discussion of the progress made in picture photograph during the war hy by those means it Is pointed out tho signal corps line created a new kind of history of the war a history story lil written entire entirely lt lit in pictures for future generations to scan 1 carrier pigeons never before era em plowed extensively in tile tho american army were widely used lit in fral cc more blore than were purchased and trained for lint hat service and ta alio 1 to report adds that in actual uso use on 1 tho it field the pigeons delivered moro more than 03 per cent of tho the messages In trusted to them lying flying safely through tile tho heaviest shell and gua gas barrages |