The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-16
CHAUFFEURS PLAY
 IMPORTANT PARTS IN GREAT STRUGGLE

(Corresp ondence of Associated Press)
 Paris, Nov. 16.@The exploits of the daring automobile drivers who whiz along the fringe of the shell-torn bat missions of military duty that have cost many a life. are as remarkable as the aerial dashes in this war Thousands of luxurious touring cars and Hmousines that once graced the bouIevards of Paris are now. employed in this service and many of them are driven by tn cir wealthy owners who rank as privates, and are comrades l with professional chauffeurs They wear uniforms marked with an "A 1 on their arm Little Is heard of their Individual deeds, which led the Figaro to say their service was 'tobscured.' 5 In reply the Figaro printed on it's first page a letter from one of these daring drivers, a Paris lawyer, that speaks for iIesIf. It follows:
 tObScured'! The word is quickly said. There is too much 'obscured' 7 And one has reason for being so who is forced to remain far from the front. Thus the automobile service is ob- scured. But the Figaro ought to say that in their ohscurity the autcmobiI- ists know how to die and that mum erous indeed have been those who have already fallen.
 .fn, at the beginning of the war, one saw automobi1ists enjoying a ride in the woods or with their cars stationed before fashionable restaurants, that time has passed. That should be known.
 The automobile squad to which I belong is submitted to the most rigid military discipline We have three roll calls day. We do not sleep at home. No one quits the garage during hours of service.
 ..The other day. about nine in the morning, the quartermaster entered the garage. Everyone was at his post The machines were all equipped, tanks filled, provisions in the hanp- CTS, carbines everything there to show that we don't just merely make run. around the lake,
 ' They want carl cried the quar- termaster Who can go2'
 a Every man answered T.
 ssOn9 of our comrades, Jean R. was chosen A turn of the crank and the car was gone. Where No one ask ed. One is too much accustomed to seeing these machines depart to put the question. They go. remain ab- sent--many days, sometimesss
 sAnd R- went this time. like others before him, and as still others will follow him, each day
 In the evening, the machine re- turned to the garage. All it's windows were broken. Bullets had riddled it's panels. J can R-- was not with it
 
 brought the car back alone can Ee-- had been killed during the trip His body was on the ground back there. somewhere in the North They had not been able to bring it back Some English soldiers had arrived in time. to save the survivors of this mis- sion on which the poor chauffeur had left so joyously Fin the morning
 Some hours later, in the garage where each evening they call the roll, to the name of Jean R., the ouar- termaster answered.:
 Dead on the field of honor The men, in two ranks, raised the hand to their caps.
 "A day or two later, one could see one morning, some soldiers marcEaing 2. with measured tread toward a church. All wore on the left arm that letter "A which is jeered at They were the comrades of the <obscured one' They were going to have a mass ceIe- brated for him who had been killed by German bullets
 W. T. Greene. Hopkinton. N. Fl. writes the following letter, which 1 will interest every one who has kid ney trouble. For oper a year Mrs Greene had been afflicted with a very stubborn kidney trouble Foley Kidney Pills done more to complete her recovery than. ayov "a, e,<7i =; -.a.e