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Show I junwr trucks will I I USE 01 POWER I TO COAST I Running during the night hours only, I; J and under a? near "war zone" condi-I condi-I I lions as this peaceful section of Anier-Ij Anier-Ij I ica can provide, six trains of army trucks destined for service with Per-'shine Per-'shine in France are pushing forward from Detroit to an Atlantic port. The II ! convoy consists of 252 trucks and the m 'trains are 24 hours ap.ut. ; Except that they use their lights and I are not bothere by udden gusts of ill shrapnel or other attentions from Fritz I 1 6 the truck companies are proceeding J as if in the immediate neighborhood j of the front. The soldier-drivers, 78 men to n train, make carup by the roadside i -whenever dawn greets them, cook their meals on field ranges carried in the trucks, and clamber into the three-ton three-ton carries for iheir da - sleep. As soon as "breakfast" is finished in the evening they swing the big khaki-colored trucks into the road again and hit out toward the seaboard. Rations Aboard. ' Besides the equipment of the sol I J diers there is a lf-day ration aboard I for each man the trucks carry loads of parts also destined for thn American Ameri-can expeditionary ton i This is the first night run of a series in which the quartermaster's department depart-ment of the United States army is giving the drivers q foretaste of the I I -work they will bo called on to do over-i over-i seas. As in the case of the first delivery deliv-ery Of t rut k- fin 111 fafloi V In -, ;(!m:ir,l under their own power, these trucks arc given the honor of pioneering the meht drives Another Innovation is that each of those truck companies I numbers 14 more trucks than those J which have been making the daylight I J run-j run-j Co-operating with the quarter master's corps in the new drives as in the old. are the highway transport j committee at Washington, and the stale highway commission. The commanding officer in charge of convoy is Major James Wh i ler I U. S. Q. M. C. |