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A DESERT OF ENGINES AND
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Among dumps of war material, msefull ing itself but unused, none is so remarkable or so eloquent of waste se that scattered about the unshel- tered shere at Sandwich, Kent, and the new train-ferry port of Rich- borough. I spent a day says the Daily Mail, correspondest and that was quite insufficient, inspecting the wealth of stuff and its steady evapora tion into rubbish..
stores contained masses of builders' trowels, pickaxes, buckets, hydraulic jacks, and the like, all, I believe,
store from a date before the armistice. But the "infinita variety of stuff is beyond cat alogue. There are orduance stores including hundreds of tons of compressed hay, rather insufficiently covered with flapping tarpaulin The railway trucks and engines fill the landscape, and a good proportion would need little conversion to make them generally useful.
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Doubtless some of the things wor not be easily convertible into pe use. I may give as an exampl number of metal barges, many ...t quite finished and some deplorably battered the rusty rivets tumbling out of the muchenduring sacks alongside. No verdict seems to have been reached whether to scrap the barges or finish them; so they are left to rot, a melancholy spectacle of indecision tied up along the river's edge!
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What is peculiar about Richborough is that a great percentage of the material was dumped there before the armistice for immediate trans- port to France. It is now old and well weathered. There is little store room except for small RE stores and hospital stores; and if stores need protection from weather no worse place could be selected. One of the first heaps of metal that I handled was of corrugated iron, which crumbled to the touch. It was of the consistency of acorched Almost the only activity observable. Porter, Mr. B. Fetter, Miss E brown-paper. You could sweep up over the desert of rust and Deid, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Richardson, crambled rust by the barrawload, decay was in the removal of lorries, Lieut. F. C. Roberts, Miss M. R. Smith, The air of Sandwich is an incomparwhose multitude had been blocking Air. B. Taylor, Mrs. E B. Towill, Mr. Tieson, Mr. F. C. Trowridge, Lieat. P. able oxydining agent. Under it vast up. the place when
general Vois, Mias. E. 31. Wood, Col. J. R.. Young. quantities of steel plates and ferrous removal began. The disposal of Mr. A. B. Dunsmore. Mr. T. Hooter, stores had rusted to the deepest rust-war material and its storage are Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hunter Mr. D. M. brown, and some of them had almost !nct easy problems, but no one Kable, and Sergt. J. Whetan. disappeared under grasses. and could visit Richborough without Weeds.
wondering what was the answer to BUILDING MATERIAL WAITING. this question: If no attempt has yet Among these were frames for mak been made to clear from its most un- ing concrete blecks, and this was suitable site material dating from last not the only example of unused summer, what will happen when the building material, of which we are heavy stores come over in quantity told the country is short. The R.E.from France? Wealth of a sort much
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