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Show Military Police Commands Even Proud Staff Car WITH THE AMERICANS ON BRITISH BRI-TISH FRONT IN FRANCE, Oct. 7. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) Ono of the interesting characters char-acters seen on the roads behind the line is tho military, policeman. He is stationed at every crossroads, regulating regulat-ing traffic with all the gestures of a professional policeman in New York or Chicago, but in a khaki uniform and with a red brassard on his arm as the badge of authority. Everything from a. gigantic motortruck motor-truck to a sputtering motorcycle comes within his jurisdiction. The haughtiest haught-iest staff car, with its proud staff flags and its red-capped passengers, is subject to the lav as laid down by that firm arm in khaki. It is a motley pageant that he1 marshals. There are big closed cars containing generals; there are great open cars filled with young staff officers of-ficers of lesser rank, but alert, enor-getlc, enor-getlc, and keen. There are evenly-moving evenly-moving ambulances with the doctor sitting calm beside the driver. There are huge lorries, long columns of them. All day long the rush of traffic on these great main .roads continues, Towards To-wards night tho roads are sometimes quieter, but there is still activity. All through the night, tho lorries plod on their way backward and forward, the 1 cars dash by, the dispatch riders come and go. There Is no rest. Layer after layer of white dust settles on the hous-j hous-j es and the fences. Day after day the I machinery behind the war goes whlr-! whlr-! ring on, growing constantly more coru-j coru-j plex and more powerful. |