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Show GOOW ROADS EUILD ROADS ON WAR FRONT Possible and Desirable to Construct Highest Types of Surfaces for Moving Supplies. With the arrival of the Balfour mission mis-sion late information has been obtained obtain-ed regarding road building methods followed in the war regions of France and Belgium. English military engineers have recently re-cently made experiments demonstrating demonstrat-ing that it is possible and desirable to build the highest type of road surfaces sur-faces for the temporary or emergency movement of artillery and supplies. Roads built with asphalt sent over from England have recently been constructed con-structed in the rear of the French-Belgium front. Roads so improved gave far better service than any type heretofore here-tofore attempted under the swift and heavy movements necessitated by the artillery action which precedes infantry infan-try attacks. It was observed that motor mo-tor trucks and gun carriages suffered no injury in movement over these hastily constructed asphalt pavements, while frequent breakdowns were experienced ex-perienced when road building was not attempted. ! These experiments being done, a mission including officers of the British Brit-ish and French engineer corps looked over the pavements in the environs of Paris built in the last three or four years. Among other roads inspected early in this month was the Trinidad Trini-dad asphalt pavement laid on the road to Versailles which has been carrying military traffic ever since the war began. be-gan. As a result of these experiments and investigations it has been decided, decid-ed, wherever possible, to construct similar sim-ilar surfaces for the movement of military mili-tary traffic'ln regions where roads have been destroyed or where they may be made necessary by battle plans. |