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Show BRITISH SOLDIERS TO EiJOffflSTlS Endless Train of Trucks Moving to Front Vith Remembrances. NKAR THE BRITISH ARMIES IX FRANCE. Dec. fi, via Ixmdon, 8:55 p. m. (From a staff correspondent of the Associated Press.) In thesi last days hct'ure Christmas it i.s a strange procession proces-sion indeed tha t winds its way on the travel-scarred roads of northern France to where the greatest armies, the world has ever known are locked in a life-and-dcnth-strugcle. Vying with tho secminely endless irain of motnr trucks eroaning under ca-pai'iiy ca-pai'iiy weights of powder, shells anI nU the va rif-d and si nisi cr ma terial of war are numherle.s other trucks fairly buleinc with presents and creetincs of the Yule-tide. Yule-tide. Oddly enough, hfth tvpes of trucks are decorated gayiy with holly and mis-tic mis-tic roe. t a ppe;i rs now that no soldier, regardless of how hnmhle his station, will he forgot ten. The handling of the vast amount of mail for t he 1 jntrhsh. Cn na d lan nd Australian Aus-tralian troops is fraught with great difficulties, diffi-culties, for pwder and shell assert their prerogative r.f preference and the holiday se;ison will hring no i-Fsenlng of the gun pre.-s.ire on on.- pri of t h- from. In-spiie the con.pi ex m'rir-TT. connected with t h-t h-t si sk. th or ga n iza ! iori hei i n d thf Pri t ish front Tn:ik--s it possible for letters and par-'rjs to fMdi the men in the front-line re?V lies fort v-eiyhl hn;;t s n fler their post i ng In London. frin i en son for this is that ti'O muh'is hing h.mdh'd find d,stri!iii;ed 1-y "Tonmus" who formerly w-c pi m 1 em piov-f-,u. The '.T:adj;:ns rr., (-red the hulk of th-ir mn:l hiM wk. mo-u of the soldier? nheving w:t:i .ihhsh impri ' ien-i instrn'--tions not ;n n; f.t the lac'-is until Christmas. Christ-mas. !" ninil for ! Ai-st-ahan troor.s nf" t-pn ri ;v v.is j.ostr-rl six nr seven week" a so. find n ;i t ui'.'i h '.- ti,er wtp m.'mv '"asu-a'.i;s '"asu-a'.i;s in thai wrio i, so fiat the authorities authori-ties n r1 ''on fronted w:t!'i a nunifer of pnr.-eU m:u h never will reh their in- A ''R ' u rr of t e Christ rr, as army rr.n i 1 s is thnt '.';( ou i gr.in g post is a 1 most n f Y.t7i-- y ;is C'" incoming. wth a strange i :..---!. :rer,t cf ir,nr,"v ord'-rs going home r.d ' on ; , r. g out. Some id-a of t :.r- a r rn v noi ; n p;n ,s m;i v t -1 f-i i nerl from i it': fa-: -'uc rorm.ihv t!-." i:r:;-)i aru-.v fu'"-l'-:--rs uy p.-,it.rdp and ll'1'"' r .1 r- " i . i : s n u -i i r-r is hd nc lo1;.- an! treMed durint; t.-.e Chr:srr.;,s s--'. . T ro an a'T,ige of foi;r icMers a :-,: and wrl'es one. T: p.T 'riL'-s Seir.g sent from t 'ie fron n-.T::;?; :i ) :-";-r.n--r of l;r.(-ri;rs from the !-fl I ; .-;e:d s a :vi t r-n' dies. i.r't'TS nnd pnr""N f'T t-.f men on the very front line are s-rtt to r : r-nr w::h tii'ur ra'iotts. T'i" f.T.o-.;e Chrisfrna." ari Tl.it tl,e "Torn-ni:r "Torn-ni:r s ' v- sending home is one on wnich lo-, l r.s n:oT roes, ;i re wuven w;;n vari -colored t':'.'a. ihi'.ads. |