El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-21
DARING FRENCH
AUT9SITS Make
FINE RECORDS
Enter Army as Scouts; Make
Little Show, but Do
Excellent Work.
BRAVE CHAUFFEUR is
SHOT DURING BATTLE
nARIs, France, Nov 1.-THE ex-
ploits OF the daring automobile

n ARTS, France, Nov 1.-The ex-
ploits OF the daring automobile
drivers who whiz along the fringe
OF the shell torn battle front and
sometimes into Ii, on missions OF milf
tary duty that have cost many a life,
in this war.
Thousands Of luxurious touring cars
and ltmOusines that once graced the
bouleYards Of Paris are now ernpIoved
n this service and many Of them are
driven by their wealthy owners, who
rams as prlTates, and are comrades
with professional chauffeurs- They.
wear uniforms marked with an IA
on the arm. Little is heard OF their
individual deeds, which led the ''Fi-i
caro-" to say their service was Job
scured. In reply the Figaro" printed
on its first page letter from one OF
these daring drivers, a Paris lawyer,
that speaks for itself It follows:
Makes Vigorous Defence.
ObscuredE The word is quickly.
said. There is too much 'obscured'
And one has reason for being so who
IS forced to reamin far from the
front Thus the automobile service Isl
obscured But the Figaro ought to-
say that in their obscurity the automo-l
bilists know how to die and that nu-l
merous indeed have been those who
already have fallen.
.If at the beginning Of the war
one saw autOmObilists enjoying a ride
In the woods or with their cars sta
LlNnGQ DeLOEG Id8nlOnaDAe restaurants 2
that time has passed That should be-
known
The automobile squad to which 7
. telong is submitted to the most rigid
roll calls a day We do not sleep at
hcme. 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
fu4ed, provisions in the hampers, car
oInes ready-everything there to show
around the lake
They want carr cried the quar-
teImaster. Who can goT
Every man answered Z
Leaves for the Front
one OF our comrades, Jean R
was chosen A turn Of the crank and
the car was gone. Where2 no one
asked. One is too much accustomed to
seeing these machines depart to put
the question They 90, remain absent
many days. sometimes.
And R went this time, like 9TH
erS before him, and as still others will
follow him, each day.
In the evening the machine re-
turned to the garage. All its windows
raueIs. Jean R was not with it.
His comrade, tears in his eys, had
brought the car back alone. Jean R.
had been killed during the trip His
body was on the ground back there.
somewhere in the north They had
rot been able to bring It back: some
English soldiers had arrived in time
t. save the survivors Of this mission,
on which the poor chauffeur had left
so joyOusly in the morning
BrnTe Man HonOred.
Some hours later, in the garage
where each evening they call the roll,
TO the name OF Jean R the quarter
master answered.
Dead on the field Of honOrr
THE men. in two ranks, raised the
hand to their caps
"a day OF two later once could see.
one morning. some soldiers marching
with measured tread toward a church
All wore on the left arm that letter
~ that is jeered at They were the
comrades Of the 'Obscured one They
we're going TO have a mass celebrated
for him who had been killed by Ger
man bullets"