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GOOD ROADS HAVE SAVED FRANCE Good roads have twice saved France in the present wr Had it not been for the raidating road system maintained by the French government the Germans would have won the buttle of the Marne and readied Paris The Germans had calculated on only three divisions being sent out from Paris to stop the invasion Instead the excellent system of highways made it possible for five divisions to be sent to this front frontAgain Again shortly after the battle of Verdun started the French railroad which was to furnish many of the supplies to the troops was destroyed The French government however had a macadam road thirty two feet wide on which four lines of traffic two in either direction were maintained Day and night 14000 motor trucks carried men and equip ¬ ment mentThe The traffic never stopped When a hole was made iu the road a man with a shovelful of rock slipped in between the lines of trucks and threw the rock into the hole then jumiied aside to let the trucks roll the rock down Farm and Fireside
