FIRESTONE DOUBLE-CURE TYRES— DOUBLE-DISTANCE TITRES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14245, 13 March 1917, Page 8

FIRESTONE DOUBLE-CURE TYRES— DOUBLE-DISTANCE TITRES.

In addition to ex^ra quaMty in seven places, Firestone'*- -Tyres are DoubleCured— slowly and -gently. V-Ehis makes the rubber and fabric one uniform whole —the tyre is no longer a series of layers, but one unit of fi'taerigth. V Because the "curing'' is slow and gentle, there is no terrific heat to, scorch the stamina out of the rubber and fabric. - .Firestonea are truly "live rubber" Tyres. L-These are reasons why you get "most miles for the, tnon^V" In- Firestonea. If your garage! iff out* of stock, wtite to A. Hatrick and Co., Ltd., Wanganui and Wellington, New Zealand Agents. 9

cultiqs confronting the. French comman-der-in-chief. On a front likce Salonika a thousahd men does not mean a. thousand combatants. Ido not hesitate to say- that for every man in the fighting line there is a man leading, a mule, driving, a motor /: «ervinjf in an ambulance, Or making roads and railroads. Every -mile the army advances strings out "its already immensely long lihes of communi'cation and increases the total of noncombatants. A. t Tlie army of : the Orient is further operating in a. foreign country, and [as theyaction . pf* King Constarttine has taught one -which at any moment may befcome a hostile one.- - - , Every- precaution must be taken tb guard against surprise and, every mile of the lines of communication -must-ibe-oarefully guarded. •.-: This means a' iiige addition to the ranks of nLpn-oohibati^hjbs. Therefore there is very much doubt i if General Sarrail, 'on the actual fightihg line, has any numerical 'superiority p**er the enemy. / * ". . 1 - ROADS ARE; BAD. • ! But it is not only the mere length the lines of communication that constitutes the problem. Their conditfon is an equaJly serious obstacle. At the present moment the only thing that has j 100 per cent, of a chance of getting ! from one point to Macedonia to the! other is an aeroplane. The chance or the other means of transport run fronk 95. per* cent, to '/em; ' The : surest is, (of course^ -the few existing, lines of railroad; But these again are '-all single, track ahd consequently mere slow and 'difficult, ito work than the double', track lines An other countries; -These have been* sijpf. . plemented by 'Decaiiville or narrow gauge) lines, Avhich rmi from railheads and fr&ni certain .intermediate statifcrtVs to the* various munition and food depots. * i ' ■ . Thousands of motor lorries and camioi. nettes are also at work linking up the ffloiib with the, bases. •;' These-,' where the •loads are impassable for* motor-driven -traffic, a)r* -replaced by horse-drawn wagigons'. When, in twin, the routes are lmpLa^sdbie for wheeled- transport of any Pp*. the, army lias to fall back on ,the Maged^-flian substitute for the motor car, •% Patient donkey, and the not patient mufe. • With the aeroplane, the donkey is the only means that has a 100 per cent, •chance of reaching- its destination.