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Show PRESERVED DEEF FOR ARMY Canned llellearj Is lo lie VttM la Iks I hlll pins. War department officials have been compelled to retort to the uto of canned roast be( (or the aubslstence o( the army In the I hlllpplnes. This Is due to the (act that It la absolutely essential essen-tial that the soldiers shall ba served with fresh meat and because of thelm-poaalblllty thelm-poaalblllty of provl ling refrigerator beef or cattle on the hoof under exist Ing conditions. When the bulk of the army was located lo-cated at the seashore and at easily accessible ac-cessible points there was no difficulty In providing them with fresh tneata, but con lltlona have now changed and the army la scattered among 100 points in various porta of the archipelago, a great many of them at considerable dlalance from tho nearest shipping point |