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Show : WOTLNESS !S I FAULT OF BRITISH No Effort Made Among Soldiers to Save Food or Other Supplies. I Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Oct. 2. The vast amount of focul and equipment needlessly wasted by the British army la causing much discussion dis-cussion and unfavorable comment here, and in many quarters comparison Is made with the careful husbandry of the Oer-mans. Oer-mans. Business men who have enlisted In the new armies write home their astonishment astonish-ment and disgust at the unscientific methods employed. The supply system works fine, they eay, never letting the men want for anything. any-thing. It also, they add, gives the men trom 20 to 100 per cent ,more material then they need and falls to make any provision for reclaiming unused articles or utilizing very valuable by-products. Everywhere at the front there are seen rejected uniforms and caps lying about the fields or put to bate purposes in the cottages of the peasants. Catlle bed on khaki. This material Is worth J21.20 a ton. Enormous numbers or saddles are thrown away, although leather Is now almost as valuable as gold. The situation situa-tion as to food is worse. In some towns the British troops quartered there have a large surplus of fresh meat, which they give away at the town hall every day regularly. Bv army rules this food must hoi be saveii or sold U must be given flAvAy or wasted. Here is the mason for this condition : A war department regulation has forbid-ilfn forbid-ilfn the supplying of less meat without a h multaneous deduction of other food. Fewer rations cm be supplied, but not different or smaller rations. Something has been nttempted to remedy this blunder, blun-der, but the change Is not general and the waste of food goes on. In ammunition and arms It is the same story. When a man is killed or wounded In the trenches his rifle and equipment are thrown aside his comrades do nothing noth-ing to utilize them. They He In the mud and In a few days are useless to anyone. any-one. There are general instruct inns about saving tilings, but it Is not the specific duty of anyone and consequently doesn't get done. Tn the German army Ihere is a special body of salvagers which saves a lot Of money. The French oven empLby a ma-chine ma-chine which converts Into valuable grease and oils every bit of refuse meat. The British army servi'-e corps consists or 1 L'O.HOO men, but: their duty at present is simply to distribute supplies, not to conserve them. |