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THE FEEDING OF THE ARMY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 112, 1915,

allowed. Pen soup le provided twice a work for the troops in the trenches, s well as extra tea and sugar. Cigarettes are served out in lieu of part of the

AN IMMENSE VOLUME OF GOOT) wookly tobacco allowance, matches ago

FOOD.

THE A.S.O. AT WORK.

The following article has been conr municated by an Eye-witness present

with General. Headquarters of the

British Foro:--

provided twice a week, anil batter is substituted twice a week for jam.

In these circumstances it is not surpris-" ing that this is the first enimpaign in the history of the Army in which there has quality of the food. Indeed, the meet been no grumbling as to the quality or serious complaint that has ever been inade is that plum jam has been issued too frequently.

WAR PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

VISIT TO A CAMP

THE LOT OF BRITISH GUARDSMEN.

dent of The Tintes describes the conditions In the article printed below a correspon- one of the German internment camps. It under which British prisoners of war live in only to one can that the description applies

one camp.

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It is universally admitted that no

There may not be much pleasure in the British Army yet placed in the field has life led by the driver of the motor lorry; On the crest of a hill overlooking a broad boen so well fed as is ours to-day, and but those who imagine that he leads an valley 15 acres of flat land have been enclosed singo it is the largest force wo have ever uneventful humdrum existence or that the by n wooden fenco 7ft. high surmounted by elons and the problem of its supply has brauch of the Army should best the side is a main highway. Peasant carts, maintained in any one theatre of opera-Army, Borvice Corps is a non-comutant two lines of barbed wire. The road on one at times presented peculiar difficulties, experience of soms of these men, it may be of some interest to give a short included early in the war many. narrow untroubled by the fact that behind these. They wagons, motor-cars, and pedestrians pass by akotch of the system employed and to l'escapes from hostile cavalry, patrols, loug boards are more than 9,000 man of various CozоMBO MABU, Japanese str., 2,019, C. show how it has worked since the com- night journeye without lights over bad races and tongues, Benlager, #

mencement of the war.

The system by which the immerse volume of food required for man and horse is conveyed to the troops is in principle simple enough. The difficulties lie in its application to the supply of an army which is equivalent in numbers to the population of a great city, may be constantly moving from place to place with its goods and chattels, horses, custs and motors, and is frequently liable to interference from the enemy.

During peace the reserve supplies for the whole of our Army are maintained in the Supply Reserve Depot. When mobilization "Lecamo imminent all these stores were at once transferred to tho Home Base Port, that is to say, the port whose supplies are accumulated for ment overscs.

Contracts were

Ja provide and maintain ghe necessary" articles forming the soldier's rabum and ships were loaded and sent to the Oversea Bases. At these supply depots and field bakeries wore established. Owing to the course taken by the operations in August these great accumulations of stores had to be moved but in spite of the tremendous task involved in their shipment to one port after another the whole machinery of supply continued to work smoothly throughout all the early vicissitudes of the campaign.

of the German

of war. It is

roads botwocu the hostile lines, daily one swept by howitzer shelf, ond generally and Turcos are detained. drives over the spor stretch of a plateau where English, French, Russians, Belgians, exhausting days and sleepless nights back wounded von ander prestito spent is taking up ford and carrying ditions the work is arduous and nut always free from dangor. be realized that there is as much romance and excitement nud as much opportunity for heroism in driving a lorry as there is in seemingly more alvonturous duties.

It will then

FRENCH SOCIALISTS AND

THE WAR.

MANIFESTO ISSUED TO THE

WORKMEN OF FRANCE,

having voted the supplies required by The Socialist members of Parliament, Government, along with mg for so doing bars, explain their reasons for to the French people:

To all we say Hava confidence. dreadful trials have not shaken our faith

Five months of war, five months of

publication of diplomatic documente con To-day, as on August 4th, after the armed by facts, wo are firmly convinced we are defending our country that has been brutally attacked..

oflicer. This is the quarantine pen," he an I was escorted through the camp by an counced to ine, as soon as we had entered. for a period of four weeks, to make sure that "We keep all newly arrived prisoners here they have no diseases. There are 600 bere now." Most of the prisoners in this were civilians Belgians, considered unruly or insubordinate, who had been removed from Belgium and interned promiscuously with the soldiers, I noticed that they were all of the arma-bearing age. The covors about an acre and a half of ground. pen" itself It is separated from the adjoining pen by barbed wire about 4 ft. high, loosely strong, and bounded on all sides by a path eft broad

The camp is divided into. 10 of these

ing on a brick foundation. Ench building ings, built of stained pine boards, and stand- pens Each contains four long, low build.

coke stoves, lighted by electricity, and Ynn- accommodates 250 men and is heated by 10 tilated by windows. The sleeping mattresses are of unbleached ducking, filled with and placed on the floor. The blankota seem- " excelsior" or wood shavings, 2 ft. thick,

told, need their greatcoats as coverlets In ed rather scanty, and most of the men, I was the centre of the room are oblong tables at which 12 can sit comfortably for meals and games. Outbuildings, containing kitchen, stores, lavatories, etc., are also provided, All

persuaded it is our duty to fight, accord-a 12 a hospital for light cases

To-day, ne on August 4th, we are fully ing to the noblest traditions of France, the buildings are new and specially con- for Right and Liberty.

structed for housing prisoners.

HOPEFUL CAPTIVES.

formations, divisions, ete of which a forrible kind of warfare-but we shall good spirits, ands, but they all were in

TRX SUPPLY COLUMNS.

From the stores thus collected at a Laso food is sent up by rail to a "Regulating Station." From this place of asserably distribution trains, each made up of trucks carrying the right proportion of each kind of article required, are cis aware that we are waging a war of free- Today, as on August 4th, we are fully patched to the "Hailheads," which are dont against the most brutal Imperialism, ont of their quartersat the time, we passed to the stations nearest to the troops to which the most savage Militarism.

After cursory inspection, as the men were it is possible to work the railway. There is usually a separate railhead station for the formidable difficulties we have to with the first, the buildings were more Certainly, we are also fully aware of the adjoining pen. In all respecte identical cach corps. At these points the supplies overcome, but thess we shall overcome. ure loaded an convoys. of motor lorries

in eresting as they were full of prisoners called Supply Columns,

No doubt the struggle will be a hard chiefly French, though with a sprinkling of load being so divided up aung two or this is a war in which each opponent tries with several of the men. Many had been here each train one; let us be frank: it may he long too; Belgians, and a few "black" troops. I spoke more coluinns as to carve the different to wear the other out--the most for four or five corps is composed.

optimistic. They asker carry it through, and bravely, for wo whether the Russians were in Berlin, and know what Future we are fighting said they daily expected to hear the boom, The supply columns convey the food to

for.

of friendly guns. "All the discipline is a suitable rendezvous previously selected, Independence and Unity may never be officers," my guide remarked, "they have full

We are fighting 80 that Freuch

tained by their own non-commissioned which of course varies daily when troops questioned again, but wave and for all charge and also full responsibility. If are moving. There they are met by placed on a arm footing. We are fighting thing goes wrong, a look cut touches a bell, representatives of the division or other go that the provinces annexed against their and then of course we take action." He formation which is to be fed and con-will, forty four years ago may return thereupon pointed to batteries of artillery ducted to "Refilling Points" selected frocly to the country of their choice. We posted on elevated platforms at various daily in the same way as the rendezvous. are fighting so that the right of a peopta points of vantage. I also saw look-out towers For the cavalry there are no refilling points and the supplies are carried or has to trace out its own destiny hem which sentries were stationed, who com the supply columns direct to noite. At recognized by all, add for all,

manded a clear view of each pen. We are fighting, too, for the grouping we found the men getting their noon-day By the time we had reached the sixth pen prisoners. The chief meal of the day is at noon, and consists of a big tin bowl of meat

able. For breakfast, I was told, the prisoners I tasted the soup and it seemed very palat- and potato soup and a piece of binek bread.

receive coffee with sugar and bread; and in the evening bread with sometimes potatoes day each aan. or other vegetables. In all 1 lb of bread a

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A factor which has at times increased unanimously resolved, more than ang or the difficulty of the work of feeding the clst, to conguer, Army has been the transference of great masses of men from one part of the line

to the other...

"DIFFICULTIES OF A MOVE

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WAR OF EXHAUSTION.

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Each pen has a "store," which is open at stated hours. A printed price-lt of the articles sold hangs in front of the booth. Soap, brushes, shirts, towels, German dic- tionaries, and French-English-German gram- mars are the chief items. No food, chocolate, or tobacco is sold, but the purchase of German graminars is encouraged, and the prices charged are ridiculously low-I believe "You see, we want the English and French to learn our language, to understand is better," my escort remarked to me.

In one of the buildings I came upon n group of British soldiers, Coardsmen, tall, splendid fellows, for excelling in physique and bearing all the other prisoners. Except Seven Years War, although he did not gain not allowed to shave oftener than once a Frederick the Great was conqueror in the that they were unshaven I believe they are square mile of territory, and held his own fortnight-they seemed remarkably fit, and by the utmost straining of very nerve. His only complained that it was hard to pass the victory consisted in the fact that he compell-time, but otherwise they were well treated. ed the enemy to recognise the Prussian Questioned about their food, they said it was power, with all its logical consequences for good, but one man spoke up the altered situation in Europe.

more breath I was informed that the allow- The lubertusburg peace could not, how. Innen was the same as that of the German ever, of course, ensure Prussia against future soldiers. In this camp the British occupy vicissitudes. We, too, might consider our the ante quarters as the other prisoners, and selves victorious if at the end of the struggle their internal affairs are, in a very wide our ecarbined enemies were obliged to desist reensure, ander their own immediate control. In addition to the importation of food, power and fall back upon the same condition from their intention to destroy our military resort has been made to requisitioning cu or affairs as before the war.

The clothing of many of the prisoners was Of them, it country, and large purchases have world then be said that what they had set pitiable. Tatiered scarlet breeches, a mufti been

of cattle, bay, wheat, out to do they could not accomplish vegetables, outs and straw, all of which

coat held together by safety pins, and a tam the inhabitants have readily placed at resources were exhausted more quickly and form. Many I saw dressed in French uni- That would practically signify that their French line regiment was a very url uni o'shanter or a cap with the number of some our disposal. Fruit was plentiful dur-more profoundly than ours, and that, even if forms proved to be Belgian civilians. One ing the reason, and the country people our losses did not for once make it possible man who wore a French artillery sergeant's were very generous in giving it to our for us to fight out the war until the achieve uniform and an officer's cap was a soldiers while it lasted. Our own bread, baked at the base by our own bakers in

ment of a complete triumph, we might enter from a Franeo-Relgian village. the open,

on a new epoch with a greater supply of has

Fail reached the tops strength, and therefore with better prospects. nothing, so I bought these clothes for on regularly. It keeps well, which is important, for it cannot well be less than that the possibility of a lasting peace with it was a rather pathetic sight to see a big Herr Rohrbach then developed a theory the British had lost their coats and caps, and mark(1), was his explanation. Several of four days old by the time that it in enfen. Hussia is mathinkable, and the Forwarts con khaki-clad soldier wearing a dark, blue Considerable help, also, has been given cludes by saying that it feels itself obliged French over coat, which was much too small by the French Tatendance in regard to call the attention of its readers to this and so tight across the chest that it had to the supply of French ration bread. This expectation of the probability of a future war be held together by loops of string. bas remarkable keeping qualities, and is which is a conaron theory among certain considered perfectly fit to eat when 12 writers:

The prisoners are allowed to write one post-Friday, 30th April:- to 14 days old, The French authorities

scard a week, which is furnished them by the have also offered to provide cattle.

authorities, and forwarded through a central Sometimes biscuit has been issued in lu of bread, the mail oblong or ragnu

distributing bureau in Geneva. The working Biscuits being preferred to the old large square patern, which require exception ally good tooth to tackle,

The soldier has bacon for breakfast bread and sheese for lunchon, a hot meal of meat, vegetables, and bread for dinner. and bread and jam with his tea. In case of emergency he carries with him "Iron Hation," composed of preserved meat, biscuit, too, sugar, and two concen trated meat cubes. Since the commnes. ment of the

campaign several additions hava boen

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One of the most burning questions inay at present is only five hours, and the supply. The Welt on Montag, as quoted by Each man receives spf. (d) a day from the. Geniny at present is that of the potato work is chiefly road building and repairing. the Farwarrt, says the potato question is authorities for his work. If he has maney question on which victory the whole his own, 10s. is the maximum sum he may H and shall be sach quantities of potnices in p.m. all lights are out in the building, and German Empire may depend. There must have or his person at any one time. By May and June at a reasonable price as will silence must be observed thereafter. The emble the entire population to live Every Butter of keeping the prisoners occupied is state how much four there was in his house on spring comes it will be different. Then there head of a household in Berlin was ordered to of great concern to the authorities. When themorning of March4th. Inanarticle dealing will be much to do, for the prisoners must with the scarcity of dairy produce in Ger till dar soil, and plant our crops": the officer many the lossische Zeitung says it is desir panned for a moment, "and they will no toable during the period of the war to eat only I doubt be with us for the harvest," le con ordinarily one egg every fifth day.

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