On Western Front, Oct, 22. The second hundred thousand British troops to arrive in France were moving quickly up to the front line here yesterday. More than 48 hours of continuous rain flooded many parts of the front, but did not inter-fore with the huge tanks used to bring up fresh troops, materials, guns and food. and also tobacco for the soldiers on the line.
The roads were teaming with British transport trucks and great tractors hauling big calibre guns. Motor lorries loaded with food and petrol, fast light-gun carriers, and motor cars of every size filled the roads. The popular baby car predominated among the cars, General Marie Gustave Gamelin, Commander-in-Chief of the French and Allied Forces, paid a visit to General Lord Gort. Commander-in-
Chief of the British Field Forces, yesterday at general headquarters. Gen, Gamelin inspected some parts of the British line and expressed him-Self as extremely satisfied with the efficient way in which the troops had dug in. He was also pleased by the extent of British war material already moved to France to complete the motorization of the British Expeditionary Forces.—United Press.
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