. Review of reviews and world's work. 000. the Belgian army 6000and the English army ^0,000 to 60,000 motorvehicles of all kinds. Tlicse niotof vehicles( American trucks were in the serv-ice of the Allies up to June 1. 1916) are be-mg used for every possible purpose conceiva-ble wherever a wheeled vehicle of some kindis needed in military operations. Withoutthese vast fleets of motori/ed equipment, thehistory of the War up to this timewould be marke(ll\ different. THE MOTOR IRICK I \ I 11 I, (.Kl \I WAR Motor trucks saved Verdun as tlic\ didParis, Verdun had no rail
. Review of reviews and world's work. 000. the Belgian army 6000and the English army ^0,000 to 60,000 motorvehicles of all kinds. Tlicse niotof vehicles( American trucks were in the serv-ice of the Allies up to June 1. 1916) are be-mg used for every possible purpose conceiva-ble wherever a wheeled vehicle of some kindis needed in military operations. Withoutthese vast fleets of motori/ed equipment, thehistory of the War up to this timewould be marke(ll\ different. THE MOTOR IRICK I \ I 11 I, (.Kl \I WAR Motor trucks saved Verdun as tlic\ didParis, Verdun had no rail one single-track, narrow-gauge railroadfailed to meet the emergency and ;iban-doned. ( [offre cr)nsi(incd it hope-less to attempt tr) hold Xerdun. (leneralllrrr brlie\rd by reconstructing the leading to Xerdun and using enor-mous fleets of m«»tor trucks, m<»tor provide adecpiatc tnunitions, leavingthe to bring up provisions for the 414 THE AMERICAS REVIEJV OF REVIElfS. TRAIN OF ARMY TRLCKS CROSSING ONt OF THE troops. This was done, and every shell usedby the French in defending \erdun washauled by motors. This was the most cru-cial test motor transport had ever established beyond question the motortruck as the indispensable transport arm ofmodern warfare, for never in any single bat-tle had the task imposed been severer. Moremunition Avas expended at Verdun than inany other battle of the Great War. Motor transport has entirely revolution-ized military operations. A military expert,Capt. A. H. Trapmann, writing in the Lon-don Daily Telvgraph, tersely says: It isthe motor lorrj (truck) which has made itpossible to supply 800,000 men and more ona single line of battle with perhaps but oneline of railwa} working freely in the rearand carry to within two or three marchesof the battlefield. As more than two-thirds of the extensiveutilization of motor vehicles in the present
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