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MAKING A FORT OF THE
AUTOMOBILE
By HINTON GILMORE
T H E use of a motor car a.s a
special fortification for scouting
parties now is being given
consideration by Uncle Sam.
At San Francisco recently.
Captain S. S. Ross of the coast artillery
corps conducted experiments that indi-
cently made was with an ordinary car of
light weight.
Army officials believe the plan to use
small cars in this manner is not without
its pracfical value. As a case in point
thev sav that the massacre of the troopers
of the Tenth Cavalry under Captain
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The scouting* party jumps out, tilts up the machine, and is firing within five seconds of the time the enemy i
discovered.
cate the value of the automobile under
such circumstances.
The utility of the car is in advancing
a special body of soldiers to the extreme
front for purposes of reconnoissance and
in providing cover in case of a sharp
Boyd at Carrizal, Mexico, would have
been prevented had the reconnoissance
been made in automobiles, because the
massacre was due, at least indirectly, to
the fact that horses became stampeded
and broke awav. leaving the doomed
rifle skirmish. The demonstration re- troopers no means of escape.
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