Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-10
AUTO HAS BEEN
DOMINANT FACTOR
IN PRESENT WAR
Nation Which Could Corner
Gasoline Supply Of World
Would Be Able to ConQeurI
All Others, Says Officer,

tAss0flated Press tOffespnndence)
General Headquarters, British
Army, France. April 80. IA nation
which had exclusively the secret 81
the internal combustion engine could
conquer the world. Under present
circumstances, a nation which could
corner the gasoline supply would be
the dominant military power. The aus
tomohilc has without question been
the most important factor Ia modern
warfare
II WAS at headquarters of the First
British army that an eminent British
stan officer nude these observations
lie had been delivering a auas-lec-
lure 20 q group Of correspondents
explaining the many uses Of motors
transport
Motor Traffic Indispensable.
without motor traffic tho present
great war of Europe would have been
impossible. There would have been
great battles, TO be sure. great bat
Ties such az Gettysburg ano Water
loo. but an army crushed would re-
main crushed. To-day roinforcements
can be thrown here and there almost
as man would hing handful Of
grain, Thousands can be moved miles
overnight thousands can De poured
into The trenches in d few hours
One has but to motor over the
shcll-pockcd fRhtng area OF France
and Belgium to appreciate the im-
portance of the automobile. Painted
dnll grey, olive dfabl OF daubed zebra
like, ON the principle that the splotch-
ed eolors prevent observations they
lumber on whiak, according 10 their
load and power, over The magnificent
roads ui France, must of which are
stlll IN superb condition notwith-
standiug the traffic Of war, hearing
food. ammunition ana supplies, mt a
rate that the general Of old never
dreamed OF
Miles of Autos.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press. motoring southwest from
Ypres, few miles behind tho lines
of parallel trenches, passed hun
hrods Of mutur lefriea. making their
WAY 70 rail-head there 10 collevt sup
pllep which They would carry toward
tho front the next morning Driven
by bus rhauiteurs from the strand
and picoadilly, hy taNicab drivers
from all four corners of the earth
many from Canada. same FROM New
York, Chicago and Pittsburgh these
great ears. llghts dimmed crcpt along
~ an unhroken stream for miles
reminding one OF the scene On the
roads &c Long ielaiid the nisht before
the Vanderbilt cup race.
From the trenches OF the contend
lng armies seafehlights thrust thin
fingers into the Hack Sky, and every
nov and then magnesium Hare.
also sent un from SOME trench, would
Illuminate the heavens like sheet
liphtnins
Riding with an officer ~ the gen
vfal stan, driven hv an American
chauffeur formerly mechanic for
Barney pldhold. the correspondents
swept along al fifty miles an hour
threading their way through the line
81 lorrirs here amt there passing in
fantry mnVmR to the trenches. or a
battery CLEANSING il position. Thnia-
n the carts uf he French peasants
hugerd the far side Of the road, The
hurses We're invariably Whites cels
or rot wanted by the army OF 50
dccrcpld as to 10 Of no military
value
IN there out If the WAY you The
American chauffeur would shout, At
peasant slo win turning his old
hofse from the ROADWAY the chaW
feur would shake his fist and swear.