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."
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock.
every man, womun and child is re
quested to rise and stand facing the
oast, looking toward Franco unit
Pershing. ,
. ST. LOriK, Sept. 2ti.I!ailroad
detectives have been notified by
Federal Manager Galloway that per
sons found "hoboing" shall be liable
to nrrest, under the war revenue net.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 'Jfi. The
senate elections committee tocbiv bv
a vote of 10 to 1 decided to postpone
until after the November el,.r.ii.,
consideration of the resolution pro
filing lor an investigation into ex
penditures mndu in the nrimm-v
pnign in Michigan which resulted in
Iranian II. .Newberry reeeivin.r the
republican senatorial nomination.
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