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Show WAR CARS BRING VICTORY FOR ALLIES Increased uso and value of tho armored ar-mored motor car as a distinct unit of servico with tho allied armies is indicated indi-cated in reports from all fronts of the European conflict Several reports give the armored car crodlt for capturing cap-turing cities In recent engagements. From tho British headquarters in Egypt comes tho report that In a raid of tho Egyptian armored car column on a body of Mohammedans tho cars traveled 200 miles Into tho Libyan desert, fought a stubborn and woll-ln-trenched enemy for twonty hours and during tho night twenty-two men in the cars remained within 600 yards of a foe outnumbering them twenty-five to ono. According to an Associated Press dispatch, told by an eye witness, wit-ness, the cars had a hot reception. "Tho tops of the turrets had been removed to save weight, and the mo; IH hafzla, as the Sonussl sharpshooters tM are called, scampered from their plac- H os of security behind rocks to tho top JM of limestone cliffs and poured down a yM plunging Are in tho hopo of hitting H tho machine gunners lnsld6 the car. jH Leaving one car in tho centor to en H gage tho enemy, the remainder moved jH to the right and left to enfilade the IH position, and for half an hour tho one IH car at tho centor received the fire jH from two ten-poundor mountain guns, tM two machine guns and 800 rifles. IH "Further in tho rear the patrols in jH unarmored cars with machlno guns H came Into aotlon, and so sprinkled the IH hill with bullets that tho enemy darod IH no longer Bhow a head. At noon a H SenuBsI bugler sounded the charge and H many of tho enemy arose to advance, H but tho motor machlno gunners did jH Buch execution that they quickly drop- IH ped back to cover. All through tho H night tho armored cars were station- H ary. Such a wholesome dread bad tho jH Sonussl of tho armored cars that 800 H of them made no attempt to rush the H little band." M Dispatches from tho western front Jm recount the exploits of armored cars VM in clearing out tho Gorman's roar H guard from towns and intrenched po- JM sltlons during the recent German re- H treat, H |