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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1918)
RANCE COVERED JY EXTENSIVE WIRE SYSTEM FOR YANKS MEDFORD MATL TRTmTXR MEDFORD, OT?EOQX, THURSDAY OF EUROPE SOUGHT WASHINGTON,' Kept. 20. A project lu provide nil imlitil-Mr Atluutit- port for S .ritzerlnnd, Hnho inin ami other inland European nn- (icnernl G. Bie Kiivndal, at Xante 1' ranee. Tliis project, the consul stales, lias aroused much interest in Nantes, whose municipal authorities are con ferring (villi commercial interests in Mrirzcrlund with a view to combin ed action. The business men of' Ly ons also are said to he watching tin movement v.IMi deep iuleresl. nl. i hough they have not yet jiiined it. ine general idea seems to lie to con struct suitable rail connections be tv eea the inland nrodiiction center and one of the Loire ports Xautes. ht. iaaire, Ln Rochelle or Hor- deuux. It also is considered nossi ble that the project mav be for warded by the const met ion of enn als linkiii"- mi the Rliiim nn.i l'l,..., rivers with the navieable bike svs. tern ol .Switzcrland.- C'erntin existiiiL' rnilromls mo available to form the backbone of sunh construction. I'ort facilities already have been developed at sev eral of the ports because of war demands and railroad yards and warehouses ample for the licuinninir of such a project are available at both N'antes and St. Nazaire. It is thought that after the war the American passenger and freight traffic with Central K urone its well as with France will tend toward the Loire ports in preference to the most distant Channel and North Sen nnris which, owing to their location and to meterological conditions, dispropor tionately increase the cost of navi gation and insurance; TOURS, Central France. Sent. 26. T-(By Associated Press.) Alonir the Railway routes and the great national highways of France one sees mile 1111,0 vi iuu new leieurauu ana " iiiiiuui r.i w xeiepnone lines set up liy the Amer- in orucr to render tliem econ- ican army, with squads of linemen wmeully independent of Germany a I' 1n khuki stringing the wires and lay- '"' war. is reccivinsr a great deal ing out new lines. The telegraph of-of attention in France and Switzer ftees all thru the war zones are '""'I, according to a report to the de crowded with khaki-uniformed oper- partment of commerce from Consul ators and a personnel of American t officers and enlisted men. 1 It Is one of the extensive svstems suddenly Installed on a huge scale with the coming of the Americans, spreading a vast wire network over all France and realizing government operation of telegraph and tele phones on foreign soil even before It was under way on home soil. Cufoles and Wire Systems This military nerve system is not alono telegraph and telephone lines, 'but cable lines across the channel so that American headquarters In France can be in Immediate inter course with American officials in London; wireless receiving and send ing plants for detecting enemy, ex changes and carrying on our own radio work; couriers and dispatch! riders; weather observers to warn a hen storms may impede military operations, and all those modern methods of rapid communication which have become indispensable to warfare. It Is a complete linking together of the army, front and rear, head quarters, staff and line, keeping the commanding officers In constant touch with every division and every other branch In the huge field of op erations. The movement of troops and the actual fighting of hattles are largely dependent on this highly de : veloped army communication, which I not , only joins our own army but I keeps up the llason of a vast united command. . It is something over 500 miles from the French const to the battle line in eastern France, and thruout this distance there is a complete sys tem of 10 and 2 0-wlre American tele graph lines, linking the seaports with the front and also spreading thru the vast ramification of ware houses, camps, hospitals, construc tion shops and military establish ments of all sorts extending from the iiorls Inland to the firing line. Trunk Lines Cross Franco There Is another miiltlnle line run ning southward toward the Mediter ranean and over to the Spanish fron tier. There are the trunk lines, extend ing clear across France and, besides these main arteries, every division and branch of the army has Its own telegraph and telephone lines keep ing up constant intercourse with headquarters. In every area occu pied by the army along the front a complete system of lines runs back to switchboard central stations from regiment hack to the brigade, brigade to division, division to corps, corps to headquarters. On the first day of the big battle above Chateau-Thierry when the Americans began their famous drive, there were 27,000 messages averag ing over CO words each, all the way from an extended report on an oDera- tlon to a short sharp order for some new move In the swlftly-movlng drama. Ithln six weeks, since tho Americans had got into action, the communication between front and rear had quadrupled, and six weeks ago had1 quadrupled over the service on April 1 when the American activ ities were beginning to get into mo tion. The culmination of the gieat bat tle late In July stirred into intense activity every branch of communica tion, with orders flying to hospitals, (.upply centers, ordnance works, and to the training and rest camps for the steady movement forward of fresh troops. PAGE THREE NEW YORK PLANS FOR BOND SALE NEW YORK, Sept. 20. The open ing for the campaign for the fourth LIbcfty loan in New York tomorrow night, will be proclaimed by power ful police, air raid' sirens, the ring ing of church bells and thousands of other sound producers about half an hour before President Wilson speaks at the Metropolitan Opera house. It will be the first test of the electrical ly operated air raid whistles, which It is believed can be heard for fifteen miles. Emergency whistles nt 150 police stations also will be blown. Police reserves and ten thousand volunteers will distribute 1,500,000 copies of "a surprise paper." 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