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Show EMERGENCY RATIONS FOR TILE FIGHTING MEN The equipment of no soldier is complete without emergency food rations. United States troops are supplied with three different parched maze-meal packets and three chocolates. The former is the revival revi-val of the maize-meal of the American Ameri-can Indians, on which they could exist for days while hunting or on the war path. The ''chain shot" ration furnished furnish-ed Belgian, French and Teutonic-soldiers Teutonic-soldiers is a winter focd of compressed com-pressed meat. There are more than a dozen varieties of compressed teas used by the Russian commissary. Compressed rice and macaroni is supplied Oriental forces. Oat-bread in sausage form is used by some of the North British troops. A curious ration is the compressed com-pressed fig coffee of the central powers, which may either be utilized uti-lized for food as it is or converted into in-to a coffee-like drink. Smokedried pears are used in the same armies. The Stfiss soldier receives an emergency emer-gency ration of ' white chocolate, made entirely of cocoa-butter and sugar. An Italian army chocolate is in sausage length form, while their plum duff goes into a beef membrane. |