Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-11-02
shouting orders AT the TOD or mis- voice.

car, and he was sending shot after shot
at them as calmly as If he were on a
rifle range. He shouted to me: Go
like hi! Crowd 'em off the road!'
When to saw how we We're gain
ing three OF them left the road and hit
out across country. | thought Dave
must have hit the other fellow. for he
simply put the spurs to his horse and
stuck right TO the middle of the road.
He didn't attempt to fire at US at all.
He was just going for all he was worth.
When | saw this | started after him
in earnest, and he didn't have a chance
In the world. That car had done seven
ty-eight miles an hour on her test, and
| hardly gave German horses credit for
TO him Dave quit firing, for 1t would
have been murder to shoot a mar in a
trap such as he was in. He kept to the
center of the road. though, and he
wouldn't give an inch.
I was blowing that old siren for all
it was worth, and | opened the cut-out
to make all the noise | could. trying
to scare his horse of the road, and the
animal wanted TO get out of the way.
too. but the rider held him in.
At last Dave said. "Ill make him
move and he sent a bullet so close
I'll bet he could have kissed it as 1t
went by. He gave way then all right.
and rs he did I pulled up alongside of
him AS we came up he pulled a re-
volver and fired two shots. which just
went over my head. Dave leaned V
and caught him by the belt. He yank.
ed him clear of the saddle and slung
him into the back of the car. He land
ed on top of the captain, and those two
were so mixed up you couldn't tell one
from the other.
! stopped the car as quickly as |
could, and we soon had him Saying
Uncle" though he fought like a wild
cat for a few minutes. The captain
got the worst of it, fer he had a beau
tiful skinner" and the skin off his
knuckles. When we searched him we
found thirty-three English ten shilling
notes on him. He had taken them
from some of our fellows, of course.
but what made us mad was that the
captain would not allow us to keep
them.
He said it would not be honest, but !
noticed that when we handed him over
to some French cavalry a little later
they didn't hesitate about taking them,
and Dave and l sat In the car and
watched them splitting it among them
selves. l felt rather sorry for the poor
devil, for he said that he and the rest
of his squad had been hiding for five
days and five nights and that they
didn't know where they were. They
had become desperate and decided to
run for it in the open. The others
came In and surrendered later in the
day.
Supplies are brought across the chan
mel daily. The railway lines run
straight down to the docks, so the
goods are put on the trains as they
are taken out of the ship. Each divi-
sion, army corps and army has its w
railhead. or. in other words, each one
of these units has its own station In
which its supplies are delivered. Ev-
cry unit has its own supply column,
which is made up of any number of
motor trucks, the total varying accord
ing to the strength of the unit. These
motor trucks pull up on each side of
the train, and the supplies are shifted
In a very short space of time. Each
motor truck is loaded with only one
kind of goods, and as the column leaves
the station yard all vehicles carrying
the same kind of goods group them
selves together, SO that when they final
ly move off ten trucks of meat may be
leading the column, followed by vari-
Gus numbers of truck loads of bread.
groceries, clothing, hay and grain,
petrol and mechanical supplies. In this
way the goods are all dumped together,
and they practically form separate lit
tie stores for each article.
The first Dump as it is called, is a
place cleared away on the side of the
road where the men may deposit the
supplies so that 1t will be convenient
for the horse transport to come and
get them. Here the goods are unload
ed, and the motor column returns to
headquarters. After it is dark the
horse transport comes down from the
trenches, loads it's wagons and imme-
diately returns to the trenches, where
the supplies are issued to each unit for
distribution to the smaller units.
The motors complete their work in
an incredibly short time. They have
seven or eight miles to carry their
loads and In some cases ven farther,
yet within two or three hours from the
time they leave their camps in the
morning they are back again, and the
army has been provided for another
day.
To each motor vehicle three men are
assigned. They are known as the first,
second and third drivers and are all OF
them qualified chauffeurs. In case any.