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Show SOLDIERS ABROAD WILL GET CORNED BEEF CHRISTMAS By the .Associated Press. WITH 'l'ilZ AMERICAN' A KM Y IN FRANCE. Thursday, Dec. 20. The great bulk of the American expeditionary force will not yet its expected Christmas dinner. din-ner. A submarine attack forced the ship which was carrying cranberries to turn back, and through some unknown cir-cunitatH-ps two shipH which were carrying carry-ing the supplies uf turkey left the I'nited States so late that U was Impossible for them to arrive in France in time. The , turkeys which already have arriyert in the i army zone were left over from Thanks-I Thanks-I giving-, as was the mincemeat which has been received. This mipply, however, will go an extremely short way. The quartermaster's 'corps is now busy try ins to secure a substitute lor the a in lei pa ted Christmas provender on this side of the Atlantic, but the army is disappointed, dis-appointed, for turkey at Christmas had been looked forward to by virtually every member of the command. The quartermaster quarter-master had marie careful preparations, but his calculations went wrong, as today's to-day's announcement shows. When the news became known amon? the forces, there were loud cries of distress from many quarters and envious eyp.s were cast at the roaming French poultry. From the general outlook now. it. appears that the principal dishes of the day will be "mock turkey," which appears on the commissary lists as. ordinary ordi-nary canned corned beef. On one cook shack in the zone there has beon pinned a striking picture of a gobbler, underneath which is written: . "Take a pood look; this is the only turk in France, and I yot it!" |