| Show ROAD BUILDING HINTS GIVEN military attaches with former pre mier balfour of england impart information some interesting information regarding military road building was givin given to the untied united states when the english mission headed by former premier balfour arrived in new york military attaches told how bow the armies of prance france and great britain rebuilt roads la in france and belgium english military engineers recently have made experiments demonstrating t that hat it Is possible and desirable to build the highest types ot of toad load surfaces for the temporary or emergency movement of artillery and supplies roads s built with asphalt sent from england have bep been constructed in the r rear car of the franco belgian front roads heads so improved gave better ice than any type attempted under the swift and heavy movement necessitated by the artillery action which precedes infantry attacks it was observed that motor trucks and gun carriages suffered no injury in m movement ove over these mistily hastily constructed pavements while frequent breakdowns were experienced when road building was not attempted following those experiments a mission including officers of the british and french engineer corps looked over the pavements in the environs of paris built in the last three or four years among other roads inspected was the asphalt pavement laid on the road to versailles which has been carrying heavy military traffic ever since the war started As a result of these experiments and lav investigations salga it has been decided wherever possible to construct similar surfaces f for or the movement of military traffic in regions where roads have been destroyed or where they may be made I 1 necessary ly by battle plans |
