TRANSPORTS PASS
OVER NAPOLEON'S
ROAD TO VICTORY
Broad Highway Running Like
a Spinal Column Across
France Is Favorite
Behind the British Lines in
Jrrance, Nov. 28 (Correspondence of
The Associated Press). —There is a
broad road which runs like a spina!
Co . , Iln1 ln acr °ss the north of France,
which the British private has nick
named the "Road to Victory." His
londness for this road is perhaps due
to the fact that it is broader, better
paved and more direct than most
other roads, being one of those high
ways which Napoleon laid out many
generations ago.
Over this "Road to Victory" there
moves a never-ending procession of
transports of the most varied char
acter. Standing at a crossroads, one
sees first a group of four wagons;
theirs is a pleasant load, for they
carry rations —clean, wholesome yel
low cheeses, sides of prime bacon,
fresh, white bread in sacks, chests
of tea, sugar, jam, tinned butter and
bully-beef, sacks of potatoes and
onions, sides of frozen beef and mut
ton.
Behind the ration carts follow a
6tring of twenty great hooded motor
lorries laden with lumber of various
kinds. Each lorry in this group car
ries its name proudly on its side,
the names all taken from Dickens'
characters Betsy Prig, Martin |
Oliuzzlewit, Micawber Oliver Twist,
Mr. Bumble, Sairey Gamp, and oth
ers. Some are carrying "duck
boards", which are the little sec
tions of skeleton sidewalk for loot
traffic over the mud. Others are
laden with "turkey trots," little
wooden bridges for shellholes. Mill
others have long bundles of brush
wood "fascines" for tilling in hollow
places in roads. Yet others have
lengths of beech planking for cor
duroy roads.
Next in line behind the lorries is
a battery of field guns painted in a
strange motley of greens, browns
and yellows. The horses are in the
pink of condition, their coats agleam
and their drivers tanned brick-red
by exposure.
After the guns come long strings
of packmules wearing brown canvas
"carriers," from the pockets of
which peep the gleaming cases of
eighteen-pounder shells, or the squat
yellow bodies of field howitzer am
munition. The mule is certainly
doing his bit in this war.
and patient, he works his ten or
twelve hours a day back and forth
between dump and g:un position,
mostly under shellfire, always over
roads muddy and wet and shell-torn.
So the long column moves onward
under the beckoning hand of the
military policeman at cross
roads. More lorries pass, tilled with
men all singing lustily. Then come
two strange-looking tractors haul
ing big howitzers; a labor battalion
marching forward to work and car
rying shovels instead of rifles; more
mules; more lorries —an endless
procession, always going forward
along this great road.
And the road itself, on which the
traffic never ceases day or nifftit,
moves always, pushing further and
further toward the east.
Rockefeller Foundation
Announces 1918 Budget
New Tork, Dec. 14.—The Rocke
feller Foundation announced to-day
its general financial budget for the
year 1918, as approved by trustees
at their December meeting. The
budget shows the war relief expen
diture for the year 1918 will reach
$5,050,000, with the possible addi
tion of $5,000,000, which can be ap
propriated from the principal fund
of the Foundation. The statement
shows an estimated income for next
year of $10,243,360, with appropria
tions of $8,395,690 voted for that
period.
In view of the expected calls for
additional war work during the com- ]
ing year, it seems likely that the \
total of the slo*ooo,ooo recently ]
voted as available from the princi
pal fund of the Foundation will
have to be called upon. During
1917 $5,500,000, one-half the sum of
the principal fund voted as avail
able, was appropriated. The ques
tion concerning additional appro- '
priations from this principal fund
will be considered by the trustees
from time to time.
The budget estimate as approved,
shows that the Rockefeller Foun
dation is devoting itself largely to
the two allied field of works (1)
promotion of public health, (2) ad
vancement of medical education.
Due to the war, the Foundation is
at present devoting a large part of
its resources to war relief, to work
for the welfare of American soldiers
and to other work in connection
with the war emergency.
Miscreants Destroy Honor
Roll of Lebanon Fire Co.
Lebanon, Pa., Dec. 14.—A reward
has been offered by officials of the
Perseverance Fire Company for the
apprehension of the miscreant who
stole into the enginehouse and de
stroyed a list of 108 names, repre
senting the number of members of
ihe company who have already en
tered the service of the Government
for the term of the war. The de
struction of the list is the first pro-
German act reported to the local au
thorities. Not only was the list de
stroyed and apparently trampled un
der foot by the culprit, but the frame
which inclosed it was damaged be
yond repair.
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