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 Two Phases of War Transportation

���One of the new French battle 'planes, equipped with a three-inch rapid- fire gun. Owing to the substantial construction of modern aeroplanes, it has been found that a spray of bullets from a machine- gun or a shrapnel shell does little damage, unless one of the bullets strikes a control wire or seriously wounds the pilot. The latest development is the installation of guns which throw explosive shells. These shells, if correctly aimed, will tear the frame- work of an opposing aero- plane to pieces

Below is pictured an inci- dent by no means un- common in military serv- ice. A French staff car has become mired in the bed of a flooded stream. Repair cars are within easy calling distance in almost any district in the war zone, and the me- chanics are equipped to handle any kind of an ac- cident, from that shown; to the removal of a car which kas been hit by a high-explosive shell

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