Postal Autos Utilized for Fire Purposes
The Germans are constantly showing the practical side of their character. In time, perhaps, all their country villages may be provide with motor fire apparatus, but until then the automobiles used by the post-office department are utilized as tractors by the Bavarian government, and whenever a big fire starts in any of the villages distant more than ten miles from a city, the fire apparatus of the nearest town are attached to these automobiles and hauled at high speed to the point of danger. As only the larger German cities have motor equipment, their assistance is invaluable and goes far towards minim zing the danger of the country villages being swept by great conflagrations. One such instance may be quoted in which the plan was practically tested. The Bavarian village of Walsdorf was visited with a threatening fire. It asked help from Bamberg. The authorities of that city bitched a small fire engine to the rear of the postal automobile. The run was made in thirtyfour minutes, and the blaze was extinguished before it had the chance to spread farther and do coxsiderahle damage.
The Kioff Liam in. of Kieff, Russia, shows that the introduction of cheap labor in that country provokes outrages a thousandfold worse than in the United States. Eighty girls who were imported to work at low wages on a southern Russian sugar estate and were housed in a wooden barn whose doors were locked at night were burned to death in spite of their frantic efforts at escape. A mob of villagers had set fire to the temporary dormitory.
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