Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1918 — GASOLINE AGAIN SERVES THE FRENCH [ARTICLE]

GASOLINE AGAIN SERVES THE FRENCH

Great is gasoline—from the standpoint of the Frenchman. In the first battle of the Marne, Joffre saved Paris by hastily mobilizing an army of taxicabs, and rushing his citizen soldiers to the front. In yesterday’s drive from the Marne to the Aisne, Foch used tanks —driven by gasoline motors —and then, in order to save his horses’ strength for the real work, he sent the war steeds to the front in huge motor trucks, each containing as many as eight horses. Gasoline driven airplanes in great numbers swooped down on the Germans and wiped them out with machine gun fire.