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include railway companies' vans still
bearing on their flanks the bright-hued
advertisements of some seaside resort;
while many others came from well-known
dry-goods stores, brewers, and famous
manufacturers. Most conspicuous of all,
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From a photograph by Photopress, London.
British armored motor-car by the cathedral in Antwerp.
innumerable evidences of the highest
bravery. One British soldier, for example,
testifies to the fact that food is
regularly driven right into the firing-line
and served out under a hail of shells. Another,
describing a violent artillery en­
however, has been the part played by the gagement, states that the drivers of the
motor-'bus. Several thousand employees motor-lorries worked untiringly, and undoubtedly
saved many a wounded man
of the London General Omnibus Company
alone are serving at the front, and great is who otherwise would never have got
the variety of ways in which the 'buses away. Nor have opportunities for valor
themselves have been employed, whether been confined to the actual firing-line;
in their original form or converted into even on the highroad there have been
motor-wagons. They have carried now numerous displays of heroism. A lieutenant
of the British Army Motor Trans­
troops, now ammunition, now food, and
even wounded men, while in the bombardment
of Antwerp they were instrumental suddenly found himself confronted by a
port, in charge of twenty motor-wagons,
in aiding the retreat. As for the French large party of Germans, whose chief officer
army, it has used large numbers of singledeckers
recruited from the Paris streets. render of the group. "Certainly not!"
stepped forward and demanded the sur­
No less striking than the inestimable was the lieutenant's reply. The German
services rendered by these essentially unwarlike
vehicles is the way in which it has up, faced the long line of vans, and called
officer retired and the British officer stood
been proved that civilian drivers, with no on the drivers to make a dash for it.
military training, can adapt themselves Every one of them, only a short time before,
had been driving a motor-'bus on the
to the sternest exigencies of battle. They
do not receive mention in the despatches, London streets; but without a moment's
but private letters from the front afford hesitation they answered to the call and