The Detroit times., 1915-10-21
ssEat Up" Roads Which
Break Down English
Make
1000 TESTED OUT
AT HAVRE CAMP
Driven Over Rough
Roads at High Speed 2
As Trial Trip

- DUfDgham--much larger loAA
I navona o. or Richmond. Va or
(. o1nAar-uttsriy given over to the
$500 Of making war. II you can
- that picture before the eyes o.
YEN mind you can see Havre a. u
= tcday. No flags or hurrahs. I'M
\ 6nrveand. No hustle. Sun-nrinG
4 legt. confusion. general omcers.
B snanIets, or music. Merely . fac
ecry tcvn which takes In raw mate
(. ~ over the pier and sends It out
r Aaishsd form over the railroad.
= a oommouplace a. one OF our
Annsioan steel mills. which are not
I :eonmonplacs at all, but miracles.
Il syIfty thousand English soldiers
! ruoehsd here one week and were
A rank On to the front" said q resi-
& Arnt who has had unusual opportun-
Y NJ for observation.
sThs town must have been hys-
tos1cal"
4 sPgct st IN You would hardly
& nnow that anything was happening.
\ w. has become . business"
Havrv u the fourth Of the great
ekonnel cities the English have
1nken over to facilitate the work OF
{ nnnt1us the Germans. Boulogne and
I ou1aiS and Dieppe are the principal
hn1oways for troops and supplies-
\ WnyFo 3 q q greater distance from
y - Aahttng line, and therefore Is
u 80 g base Tenderfoot troops
$50 here to be hardened for
& llefjo time before they are sent for
V uns6 20 the trenches. A circle of
camps surround the
~. Nnlicns II pounds worth Of
rnplisa are received here and held
n anGnlnst orders. Tho city has be-
i eomo . storage place, In which Ia
vnrohoused men ard motors, and
5S - ana cannon. II has no bush
noss except war.
Il r peace timss Havrs u the sec
49, commercial port Of France. Its
y nyueom Of docks is especially note
9rnngthy. When var came the docks
y inna<lcally be6ams . part Of the
ndlitary organisation. Ships with
1W11 cargoss took precedence In
{. tAem. One ship with . peace cargo
y ~ = the harbor for I'VE weeks, and
wss then only discharged because
4 - was needed to carry a war
Y ffsight. Once there were 75 ships
1ying In the roadstead. while ships
were ranged i've and six feet deep
Is q The docks. Today the congestion
- practically disappeared.
sHavre's imports are greater than
4 iAsy have ever been in her history"
4 ia an olscial. But they may
" nUvos show on the reports"
Take . sample Of the business
INT b being done end the way 1t ID
bolng done. In q single week 5000
h AnWlean motor trucks were swung
Y ct q shipholds here. They wers
n oGnomhoed m the docks, their tanks
n nue4 and they were driven TO an
oeAog part u the docks. whore they
y vwu 1ooAed with supplies for the
& eonl Thstr trial TIP was to *
hooeang ovsr roads that had beer
oogn - p1eeas By military trsfie. n
81 ehaagD q drivers Who thought the,
were triumphant II they stayed OF
~ roads. and loaded unti1 thei
sesel frames gruntsd. The rrenci
~ No the American trvek u TIL
~ in the world
ne Dngiish truck cannot stan,
II - under the treatment the Amer
lien truck fourishes Co." they said
sAAA your hight cars run tho leg
\; - any car In the world. rhsy ~
H utterly marvellous"
1svrvs war activities sre not cor
Il 0ned 70 the harbor and ne camI
< m ysacs times the picturesque poi
4 t1ua q the water front il dotte
* M vUry handsome villas. tn
n ownegs Of the villas have been turn
q @ Oat. Today soldiers In the butcl
~. blue uniform Of the British col
81 vnDooCent peer out OF these vii
4 Aovo. One IL rarely out OF the rans
e iodoform. The Belgian chief {
stan occupies what was once e sun
n msf hotel
One Of the most touching men
cries Of the war IL that OF the salut
4 10 the Belgian flag at the close I
\ day.
& Perhaps . dozen men and womel
refugees from q ruined land, watc
& "a q with their hearts In their eye
q An ofYicer with one arm In a sin
4 gave the orders. A soldier with
& hand about his head fred a htt
trench mortar--a pitiful little mcrt'
that had been cast because II Wa
uIit tor the real work OF war. II
q dozen soldiers attached 20 headqua
trrs came smsr:ly 10 salute. As n
x y1st rays Of the sun elimmered 9
the llue soa the Belgian nag Al
osred down. II seemed courag
pus cvilc.
IN one marrow, stone-ws.led Ter
"a heard the sound Of children sin
Nc AZ nfst the air was elusiv
MA w recognized II through a
oDA>at Glasuise Of language an
- - MY. piping voices.