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Show --- "w Mi-in n -mi 1 "1 ii ,: SUPPLIES ALWAYS ON HAND -rltlsh Claim to Have Made Transport ty8tem'to the Front as Perfect as la Possible. When It Is mentioned that 2,000 tons of goods food and othor necessities aro sent every day from the baso de pots to tho firing lino of tho British army, Homo idea of tho gtgnntto task of tho army sorvlco will bo gathered.. This enormous weight of goods, says Harold Hegble, comes almost entirely from Englnud, for wo nro not buying In Franco oven bo perishable a necessity neces-sity ns milk. Vast stores aro brought from England and loaded Into sheds at tho baso depots. All day by motor dory and railway truck supplies for tho troops nro sent out from thono bnso depots to stores as near as posslblo to tho firing lines. And Just ns reserves aro accumulated In tho docks, so reserves aro accumulated accumu-lated near tho front, slnco nn accident to tho railways might cut off the fighting fight-ing soldiers' supplies. On ono occasion there wns n dolny on tho mllwayB of 30 hours, but not only did tho soldlor at tho front get all his food and ammunition, but ho did not oven havo to draw on tho reserves re-serves I havo mentioned; regimental stores wero sufficient for his need. Everything goes by clockwork. Thero Is no room for an nccldont. London Tlt-Blts. |