Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-19
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BUILDING ROADS
UNDER GERMANS
Officers of KaiSeIS Army
Take Command of Drafted
Civilians and Set to Work
to Improve Highways,
tA..oclated Press correspondence.l

associated Press Correspondence.)
! Constantuople June 30-On the
broad ta EnuN three kilometers east
Of one 10 the druest little towns in
/ Anat5la is group IF drafted Ar
Imeuians engaged in road-building.
The Associated press correspondent
found % Young German engineer. clad
i'm a uniform of Turkish pioneer Of
ficer.
eyes replied the young German to
the question put 20 him, 81 ann build
ing this road Here is place where
there have been many washouts. 7
ann revetting the emhankment and
hope that the road viii stay Tor It
while after that. It's a dreary life, of
course But il has TO be done. ia
rather Doe i'm the firing line in Flan-
ders. or amy old place, for that mat
ter But nowadays We all have to
help where best we can
That the road was needed, and that
/ il was best To keep it in good repair
was shown a little later when regi-
mont Of Turkish artillery went over
/ it at lively clip
Taking Kinks Out of Road.
At the foot of the Amanus pass
There was another German engineer
doing similar work
" am taking the kinks out of the
road he replied you see. these old
tramps M the mountains have been
used from time immemorial. ] sup
pose some donkey first discovered
tbat MS befnp one way Of getting over
the hin ! mean the four-foated don
kew. i'm the DAYS of Neburchadnez2ar
Since then AN the armies of antiquity
and y few modern ones have used the
rood without knowing that the hin
can be assembled in an easrier way.
Then he showed the correspondent
"a new survey he had made. The old
road tool, eight turns TO get over the
mass. many of them very steep. The
new rand takes only one. and it re-
Idures me possibfitv Of accidents a
emf ar two a little revetting. and the
Itrirk was done
Al fshlaiah the correspondent met
a German medical officer. The man
had formerly been in the employ Of
the Bagdad railroad. When the war
came he entered the service of the OF
to,nau army because physicians and
surgeons were needed. ne was nut in
command of the sanitary troops IF
SYRIA.
Getting rid of Disease.
,.Thev have had some tvphoid fever
ana typbus around here" he ex-
nloined ~ am irving TO get rid OF
botb Making fair proeress. Getting
Mace cleaned nm Most places now
safe Notbinp to fear %
Tho man tall1ed ms if ne had TO turn
in "a certified voucher for every word
no uttered i'm the course of a day. He
was serions n is doubtful whether
be had ever smiled IN his life
/ IN Alenno another German officer
was met he TOO. had his niche in
Ina Ottoman army affairs lie is
looked nnon as s3mrvbat of an ex-
non In ,baso and line communication,
nattors. but IN indigo nv his anpear-
anro one contd swear thar ne had
inst stained oi,t ~ the host dravinp-
room, in Rerlin Ue eaid he was do
inc, bie host rbc T,rliob baso com
n9ndor said ne was doing wonders
IIo md met ,nanaged ia find several
inns of railr,ad enikos where nobodv
s,snocted nom III clotbinp store
hoIoneine ~ an Arr,enian
"Joy, tho, COT thero don't know q"
ho n,,sod roflocti,.oiy IN ~ casino
"(,,t snn,o v,ater. ninjno in Tho eai,c
niaco
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1890
O,g,core Uroin Troone
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that no,,a otIor cor,,,,o offiooTs
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