Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1915 — BATTLE IS WON BY AUTOS [ARTICLE]

BATTLE IS WON BY AUTOS

Re-enfore«ments by Motor Tumod Seale for Germans at Solasons. ■ V ‘T.'dpE Berlin. —The automobile played am important role in deciding the battle of Soiasons. It is now learned that reenforcements, brought up by a column of more than two hundred automobiles on the night of January If and thrown in on the German left flank at Vregny, turned the scale when the Germans were making their counter-stroke and enabled them to •weep the French from the plateau. Hitherto automobiles have been, used by the Germans but little in this campaign, except for the' transportation of riflemen attached to cavalry divisions, owing to the length of tlmo required for loading in motor cars large bodies of troops, which, to a great extent, neutralizes the extra speed in the actual movements. On this occasion the troops were drawn up four abreast in a column along the road. As each automobile arrived men clambered in quickly and without confusion.