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Show WARZONETRAFFIC IS EXACT SCIENCE Control Posts Under Military Police Behind Lines. TIE-UP MIGHT BE FATAL Disorganization of Transports One of Most 8erlous Blunders of War-Beating War-Beating the Hun Everybody'a Job-Scenes Job-Scenes Behind Lines During Big Push Are Very Exciting. When thcro arc thousands of men and thousands of vehicles of various kinds to deal with behind tho lines of a battle front there must bo some very effective organization. That is why behind be-hind the British line la Franco everything every-thing Is thought out and arranged, so far as the tralllc. Is concerned, ns though London, New York or Chicago were being regulated, writes F. W. Ward In the New York Tribune. Tho roads will not take more than a certain amount of tralllc, they do not nil lend to Home, and so maps have to bo carefully care-fully scanned nnd studied and tho best routes up und bnck hnvo to be laid down. When you get the chance to look at a map used by tho Tralllc Control people peo-ple In France you see a number of big bluck urrows, some pointing In one direction, di-rection, others In another. These nre to mnrk the up nnd down routes, routes that have to be followed by every o4nc, excepting tho lorries working work-ing on road repairs and, naturally, tho French people themselves. For the latter everything Is done to study their convenience; they nre In their own country, nnd they huve, of course, tho first call. Say, for Instance, thnt troops uro moving up or bnck. They have to keep to the route laid down, nnd they have to be past certnln points nt certain times. The time table Is worked out as carefully as though It were trains, and not foot, horse and motor transport trans-port thnt hnve to be considered. If this were not done, there would, be trouble nil the wny round. But If a locnl farmer comes nlong It is recognized recog-nized thut he wishes to get from somewhere some-where to somewhere, and he Is given every assistance. Beating the Hun Everybody'a Job. "Come on," the Tommy on point duty will sny to him, "as quick ns you can, please, and don't keep the circus waiting. Alley I Vltel Coraprey?" Daddy "coraprcys" all right, ho, whips up his horse, waves a greeting to the boys In the road, nnd gets on his way with a smile and a nod to all and sundry. Be may not be able to speak a word of English, but he knows everybody every-body Is on the same job, beating, tho Hun, and he Is quite ready to do his bit by hurrying up for a few minutes when It Is necessary. Traffic Control posts have been established es-tablished nt nil the busy points behind tho British front. Soldiers are told off to take charge of these, whe nre on duty for a stated time, just 'as though they wero mounting gunrd In England. They nro provided with nrmlets nnd smull flngs, they hnve very definite orders, and they carry them out. It makes no' difference who tho traveler may be, ho hns to conform to the rules laid down. If n motor car Is not allowed al-lowed to pass over n certain road In a certain direction, It makes no difference differ-ence who mny bo In It. I have seen officers of very high rank hnlted nnd tcld they must go around another wny, nnd they hnve gone. The motor lorry driver will wax surcnstlc, but thnt Is nil. He, too, knows what It Is for, and he pulls around In the direction pointed out to him. At sorno of the principal points, where a Trafflc Control post has to bo kept In being for some time, nn attempt, at-tempt, nnd a euccessful attempt, Is mnde to mako things comfortnblcj this Tommy will build himself n sranll house, nnd luy out n Binnll gorden when ho Is off duty. "Enjoy life while you mny, you'll be dead a long time." That's his motto, and ho lives up to It. I dare soy there nro plenty of pooplo at home most convincing armchair strategists, too, some of them who would tell you that it la a very simple I and Insignificant mutter, an) how, this control of tho roads, and not a thing, of any military Importance. They are accustomed to tho apparently nuto matlc smoothness of traffic working, suy, In London, nnd hnvo never botb-j cred to think of the system required, even there to back up: . 'The policeman with uplifted hand, Conducting the orchestral strand." ' Road "That Saved France." ' Well, It would open their eyes to- VW spend n week or an hour, for that matter Immediately behind the lines In France; especially In the neighbor hood of a big push. That would be at bit of a revelation for nny home-stny-' lng mortal. The fate of whole armies,' If not of nations, has depended to a large extent on efficient road control' nt certnln stages of this war. No man1 who has once seen the thing at work will ever forget It. The most famous example, of course, Is tho road from Bar lc Due to Verdun; the Volo Sa crce, of which the pollu will tell you, with u gleam In his eye, thnt It Is the road "that Bnvcd France." There was no railway thero In the early days of the Boche onslaught upon Verdun, and what the Vote Sacree had to curry In tho spring of 1010 was nn endless chnln of heavy trafflc, day and night, " with never n break, such as no other, road probably has ever had to carry In the time. And the fato of Verdun,; perhaps of France, was In the balance. All through northern France and Belgium one finds highways the high-, cambered, narrow centers of which nro fine nnd hard. But hosc centcrwaySj nru exceedingly narrow and, In places, the wlde-strctchlng mud on either sldo of them becomes u bottomless pit In bad weather nnd under war conditions., There arc many such roads on which one obstinate fellow In n wagon or u' motor lorry could easily disorganize the transport of an army corps In half an hour. Nay, ho might be the means of losing a thousand lives, or n battle, or both; and, very easily, he might cause thousands of hnrd-worked fighting fight-ing men to spend n night without food.1 All this, If the military police were Incompetent, In-competent, or the system of rond control con-trol were Ignored, or slnckly administered. adminis-tered. Then there Is the danger for marching troops to be considered, especially espe-cially at night. And think of the petrol pet-rol 1 The way of n three or five ton motor lorry, with rations or munitions, Is blocked. There may easily bo a) string of several hundred similar lorn rlcs Immediately affected In the soma wny; and they nre great drinkers of petrol. That sort of thing simply must not be, and, with a success which rightly understood Is quite wonderful, our military roud controllers see that It docs not occur. Qj Horses Must Walk. " Another thing which comes within, tho duties of the Traffic Control Is to BflBBLBBBL 4MMVlNDaBBBBBBBaajiBBBBuaaBH (P& TalBpWvTJBBBMW'JffiBBBWBBaaBaaj BBBBBBBjBBBaaKNk.iiair' aESgtfPNMB8BMBgaK4V f'gSSp--yC8Fffi'v-aapT? n JSr BBaBaBB9CM939Jp'?avvABpr. n.' PS r.UQffGJPQt'iBBBVvBaBBfBaBBaBllaaBBBBaBBj The Spirit of France The great war has produced no greater masterpiece than this photograph. The three peasant women returning to their home within the territory evacuated by the Germans, and finding the beasts of burden gone, have set about to drag the harrow over their barren fields and sow the grain that will keep their men alive at the front see that proper care is taken of horses.) They most walk, not gallop or trot, ez-l cept whep there are shells knocking ntyout. Then, of course, it's h for leather, and the devil catch the hindmost. hind-most. More than once I have seen thi drlver'of n horso transport pulled up and Informed that, although it may bo down hill and he is traveling empty, ho has to think of his horses, or his mules, and to keep them la a walk. Once In particular I wns struck with1 tho great comuuind of language, possessed pos-sessed by a colonel who discovered nl man trotting nftcr he had got out ofl sight of a control. That man slowed down to a walk without tho slightest! loss of time. Truffle, too, has to bo controlled nt the watering places, the horses havo to! be brought In on one road In batches, awVl ' nnd after drinking their fill taken out JI' on another. Tho water carts being filled from the stand pipes at the sldoi of the rond have to be marshaled audi kept In their proper order. All thlsi falls to tho lot of the Tommy with tho llttlo Hag, And yet ho keeps on smll-( Ing nil tho while. j |