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Show U. S. Standardized Motor Boats Used To Clear Mines A FRENCH ATLANTIC PORT, OcL J. (Correspondence of tho Associated Press.) France in her work of safeguarding safe-guarding tho coast from mines and submarines, Is using a large number of I motor launches of the standardized American type which . camo over under un-der their own steam with a loss of only one out of fifty. One of tho most successful boats used for the work -is the cannonlere which, working with Diesel engines, can steam 3000 miles at ton knots an hour without refuelling, and so could' cross to the United States under its own power. The craft carries guns big enough to deal with any submarine, subma-rine, as well as depth charges, and its low draft, enables it to travel over minefields that would nvreck a destroyer. de-stroyer. The average size of ihls vessel ves-sel Is nbout 400 tons. For mine sweeping the French use an economical form of trawl. The sweep is towed astern, being held out by floats, and the trawl itself has ingenious in-genious underwater appliances for keeping it at the required depth, and a new device for cutting a mine adrift whenever it touches the trawl line. GERMANS SEE MOVIES. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE, Oct. 4. Before going into battle German' soldiers In certain instances are shown moving pictures of the country through which they are supposed to pass during a proposed advance. Information reached the American officers recently thai moving pictures had been put on the screen for the benefit of the Germans who took part jn the offensive which started July 15 in tho Mnrne country, the pictures showing certain stretches of land so as to familiarize the advancers with the terrain. Some of the wooded districts dis-tricts and fields shown on the films were never reached by the Germans owing to the counter altack of the French and Americans which began on the morning of July 12, completely upsetting the German plans. oo |