SIDE UGHTS ON THE
H°w lhs British Troops Ar« Fsd'
Ad eye witness present with Gen
eral Headquarters of the British fores
says that it is universally admitted
that no British army yet placed in the
held lias been so well fed as that ol
ay. and since It la the largest force
ever maintained In any one theater
of operations and the problem of Us
supply has at times presented pecu
liar difficulties, it may be of some In
terest to give a short sketch of the
system employed and to show how It
has worked since the commencement
of the war.
The system by which the immense
volume of food required for man and
horse Is conveyed to the troops Is In
principle simple enough. The difficul
ties He in Us 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 Us goods and chat
tels, horses, carts und motors, and Is
frequently liable to interference from
;he enemy.
Uuiing peace tbe reserve supplies
lor tbe whole army are maintained in
me supply reserve depot. When mob
ilization becomes Imminent all these
stores were at once transferred to the
home base port that Is to say the port
..applies are accumulated, tor
siiipiuent overseas. Contracts were
made to provide und maintain the ne
cessary urticies forming the soldier’s
ration aud ships were loaded and sent
to the Overseas oases. At mese sup
ply depots and held bakeiies were es
tablished. 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
i.tsk involved In their shipment to one
port after another the whole machin
ery of supply continued to work
smoothly throughout all the early vic
issitudes of the campaign.
First Sent to Regulating Stat’on
Kruiu the stores thus colletced at u
base food is sent up by rail to a "reg
ulating station." From this place ol
assembly and distribution trains, each
made up of trucks carrying the rlghl
proportion of each kind of article re
quired, are dispatched to the "rail
heads" which are the stations nearest
to the troops to which It Is possible
to work the railway. There Is usually
a separate railhead station lor ettch
corps. At these points the supplies
.re luaued on convoys of motor lorries
.uned "supply columns."
The supply columns convey the food
.o a suitable rendezvous previously se
eded, which of course varies daily
.lien troops are moving, there they
.re met by representatives of the di
ision or olhei tortnation which is lu
jo fed and conducted to "relilling
.joinla" selectee daily in the same way
-s the rendezvous, for the cavalry
neie are no relilling points and the
applies are carried by the supply col
umns direct to units.
At each relilling point the supply
olumn is met by the horsed w agons
A tile "supply sections of the train”
A the division, and its contents are
gain subdivided according to the scan
.uthorlzed for each unit and are re
oaded. The horsed wagons convey the
_ood to the units—battalions of in
.antry, brigades of artillery, etc.
A factor which lias at limes in
creased the difficulty of the work of
.ceuiiig the army hus been the traris
el'ence of great u.asses of men from
jue purl of the line to the other.
Difficulties of iV1°ve at Short Notice.
1 hese changes have often had to be
nude at short notice, and a railhead
may hate had to be adopted within a
' tew hours for the accommodation of
i vast amount of rolling stock and for
.1.ailing and unloading lorries In the
■shortest possible lime.
What mis entails may be Imagined
when it is remembered that the only
railhead available may consist of a
mail wayside station where there is
perhaps only room for one row of
.urrles at a time and the entrances ami
xits to the station have to be widen
ed, and other preparations made to
mndle the large number of vehicles
! equired to cater for one or more army
i corps.
The excellence of the performance
; if the supply columns during the
^ present campaign Is shown by the
j act that, except during the retlre
! mi nt, not a single day has passed
| pon which food has not reached the
men.
In addition to the Importation of
,’ood, resort has been made to requis
itioning on the country, and large pur
chases have been made of cattle, hay,
cheut, vegetables, oats and straw.
Vuit "as plentiful during the season,
ind the country people were very gen
•rous in giving It to our soldiers while
I t lasted. Bread, baited at the base by
I British In the open, has reached the
coops regularly It keeps well, which
3 important, for it cannot well be less
turn four days old by the time that
it is eaten
What the Soldiers Eat on On*y.
The soldier has bacon for breakfast
1 Head and cheese for luncheon, a hot
! meal of meat, vegetables, and bread
for dinner, und bread and Jam with
uia tea. In case of emergency he
carries with him an "iron ration,"
j composed of preserved meat, biscuit
oa, sugar, and two concentrated meat
cubes bince the commencement of
no campaign several additions have
jerii made to the scale of food ordi
,,nilv allowed. Pea soup is provided
wive a week for the troops in thv
reaches us well as extra tea and su
,ar Cigarettes are served out in lieu
jf part of the weekly tubacoc allow
ance, matches are provided twice a
eek, and butter is substituted twice
i week for Jam.
In these circumstances it is not sur
prising that this is the first campaign l
n the history of the urmy in wlich!
aivrc has been no grumbling as to
'luantity or duality of the food,
indeed, the most serious complaint that
ms ever been made is that plum Jam
ias been issued too frequenltly.
there may not be much pleasure in
he life ted by the driver of the motor
nr.v; our hose who imagine that he
inis on uneventful humdrum exist
iivB or at the army service corps is
. non-combatant branch of the army
liouid lr ai the experience of some of
.liese men.
They include early in the war many
narrow escapes from hostile cavalry
patrols, long night Journeys without
igius over bad road between the hos
ile lines, daily drives over the open
stretch of a plateau swept by howitz
■r Hiiells, and generally exhausting
iiij s and sleepless nights spent in tak
ng up food and carrying buck wound
_d. Even under present conditions the
i .vork Is arduous and not always free
, roni danger .
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ALASKA IS THE LAND
GULLIVEH’S TRAVELS
Dean Jonathan Bwlft waa the first
man to discover Alaska. He called
It the Land of Brobdingnag. In "Gul
liver's Travels," published in 1726, two
years before Vitus Bering, the Danish
uavlgator, sailed from Serbia to dis
cover Cape St. Ellas, Dean Swift, in
maps accompanying a work which was
a satire on human nature, extended
the western coast line of North Amer
ico to the point where Alaska later was
discovered. Swift called It a land ot
giants. It has proved a land gigantic
In some respects—In rivers, mountains
and resources.
Because of this fact "Gulliver's Trav
els” will be accorded the place of honor
in the library of the school of mines
and agriculture that Is to be estab
lished at Fairbanks under a bill In
troduced by Delegate James Wicker
sham and passed by the last congress.
For seven years Delegato Wlckersham
has been collecting a bibliography of
Alaska, which will bo presented to the
library as soon as It Is completed.
In Swift's Imagination Gulliver’ left
England In 1702 for the Cape of Good
Hope In a ship called the Adventure.
The ship was driven In many direc
tions by varying storms, but finally
the strong winds blew steadily from
one quarter, thslr course being north
east. The provisions held out well, th«
ship was Btaunch, and the crew all In
good health, but In the utmost dis
tress for water.
They thought It bettor to hold to
his course than to turn to the north
which Gulliver knew would land him
on the northwest coast of Great Tar
tary, now known as Siberia and lntc
the froxen sea. now known as the Arc
tic ooean.
"On tho 16th of June, 1708," so runt
the .narrative, "a boy on the topmast
discovered land. On the 17th we cam<
in full view of a great island, or con
tinent. on the- south side whereof wsi
a small neck of land Jutting out Into
the sea and a creek too shallow to hold 1
a ship's above 100 tons.”
Swift’s map shows a coast line
stretching northward from Cape Men
docino to New Albion, presumably
Canada; the "Streights of Annlan,”
probably the Straits of Juan de J’uca,
and still farther north the land of
Srobdlngnag—Alaska.
Two years after Swift's book was
published Vitus Bering set sail from^
Northern Tartary, or Siberia, and dis
covered a shore line and a high moun
ain, which he named St, Elias.
Delegate Wlckersham has copies of
ho Journals of every explorer who ever
.vent Into Alaska, and of practically
everything that has been written about
.he territory, as well as copies of the1
speeches made In congress during the;
period when the purchase of Alaska
rom Russia was discussed.
Flag at Washinflton
The flag which marked the end of
AT THE NEW EAGLE.
Old Lewis Huntor Rye and the Fa
mout Atherton Bourbon whiskya, Ois
tilled spring 1904-1905, bought in bone
and reduced *o 90 per osnt. by U. S
government by the bottle or gallon.
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Russian power in America reposes In
.he state department at Washington,
and it Is probable that this also will
oeeome a part of the record to be
placed In a fireproof building at Fair
oanks
In the university of Washington are
.nonumems left on Chamlso island by
.iotzebue or one of the other ear 4
Russian explorers, as well as those left
by the ships Plover, Herald and Blos
som, which went t-t the relief of the Ill
fated Sir John Franklin expedition.
When the building at Fairbanks Is
completed Delegate Wlckersham will
negotiate with the board of regents
with a view to transferring these relics
to Alaska. Among other things, Mr.
Wlckersham has obtained copies of
every paper ever published In Alaska.
Some of these were published In Rus
sian previous to the occupation of the
territory by the United States In 1867.
—Seattle Times.
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