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Show Water Skates. Berlin. The German military authorities au-thorities have tried out successfully cigar-shaped rubber skates, by which a soldier is equipped to literally walk over rivers, carrying heavy loads meanwhile mean-while and firing his rifle with all the steadiness he commands on land. Each skate or pontoon Is about six feet long and fastened on the foot in the same way as skis or snowshoes. The motion of the soldiers use to propel themselves .over the water very much resembles skating, and because of this, the name of water skates has been given the invention. They have more than one use; a number fastened together make reliable reli-able rafts, and they may also be used as a base for a bridge. |