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Show oo Capt. John Heywood Addresses the Local Rotary Club Captain John Heywood, son of Mr and Mrs Abbot R Heywood, was 1 guest or the Rotary club at a luncheon given today noon at the Weber club and spoke before the Rotarians on the I .--UUjei.-L ui me iuoo iu (,vii.iir mum lions from the factory to the front lines. In his speech before the club. Captain Cap-tain Heywood vindicated the quart- r-masters' r-masters' corps, which has been somewhat some-what maligned, he said, for the great losses of munitions before the firing line was reached. -Captain Heywood showed that the losses, which were great, were inevitable in modem warfare war-fare He said that the largest losses occurred after the munitions had left the rail-head and were taken in trucks to the front line being often de- s) royed by shell fire. The captain showed in his talk that the Germans had maps of each road and kept more or less constant shell fire falling on the Intersecting points, often making blind hits and more oft en being guided in firing by aeroplane-? or other means of getting the range Although most of the hauling of munitions mu-nitions was dono at night there was tremendous losses occasioned by shells strinking munitions trains, often involving in-volving the loss of the entire train. |