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Show . United SUte army adopt motorcycles in Mexican expedition ai retult of what Brig. Gen. John J. Perahing indicated indi-cated by arrow) objerved of their value in warfare when he reviewed the cadets at Ro.well, New Mexico. Inset upper rigKt, show. Machine Gun Corps No. 1 crossing arroyos and washed out roads at high speed. Machine jruns inset lower left, can be fired from the motorcycles or can be mounted separately and go into action within a minute. Machine guns mounted on motorcycles motor-cycles probably will be used by Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing in the final roundup of Villa's bandits, according to information that has com out of Mexico, notwithstanding the censor-ship censor-ship of tho war department. Motorcycles Mot-orcycles used tho past two years by tho First Aero Squadron, U. S, A. are now in Mexican service and one of the, first things done after tho raid-lng raid-lng of ColumbUH waa to wire for ad ditional machines. The railroad of-flciaJs of-flciaJs got them through from Milwaukee Mil-waukee to the border in 33 hours. These mnchinos are now in unc for dispatch bearing and maintaining the lines of communication of tho punitive- expedition in Mexico. To Sergeant B. F. Leonard of tho Now Mexico Military Institute chief credit Bhould be given for developing - the quick handling of machine guns on sidecar cbasses. With th two guns issued by the war department last fall the first maohlno gun corps hns traveled more than 1,600 miles over the rough country of the southwest. south-west. It has been demonstrated that the Colt automatics and Harloy Davidsons Dav-idsons can travel over most any kind of ground at from 20 to 40 miles per hour, get into action ln 60 seconds and deliver 480 shots a minute. Qer.sra. Rsrchiar; psxonally reviewed re-viewed tho cadet battalion and machine ma-chine gun corpa Washington's birthday birth-day and saw first hand whnt can bo accomplished with this modern method meth-od of warfare. It is declared that General Pershing has more intimate knowledge of the effectiveness of motorcycle mo-torcycle machine guns than any other oth-er officer in high command in the United States. The machine gun ;'' company which ho reviewed is the :: first of Its kind ln America, but from ' j tho activity displayed by the war de- partment It is a practical certainty that motorcycle triachlne gun compan- ios will be attached to oVery regi :j ment. The gun cars and their motorcyclo ! tender carry a total of 4,320 rounds of ammunition in eighteen compact I boxes 240 rounds in their flexible j belts In ench toox. But one gunner and driver are required for each gun 1 and In addition the squad carries en- trenching tools, wlre cutter and com- ifm plete semnphore signal outfit. JM Mr. F W. Hotallng ("Ilote the Har- 111 ley Man") is the local agent for tho III Harley-Davidson Motorcycle, at 2583 jl Grant Aye., this city. -Advertisement. Ji IE 'Mr |