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Show TOURS. Decj. 23.- (Correspondence of The Associated Press) Mothers, sisters, and sweethearts in America need not worry about protection of their soldiers in Europe against the rigors of the coming winter. The quartermaster's corps specialists in France declare to The Associated Press that the boys are better equipped equip-ped than the majority of them ever were in civilian life. Each soldier has two pairs of heavy nail clinched and dubbined shoes which are impervious to weather, five pairs of wool socks, three suits of wool underwear, two complete wool uniforms, two wool 0. D. flannel shirts, one short but heavy overcoat trench style, and one pair of wool knit spiral puttees ten feet long. The quartermaster's corps estimates that the average soldier in campaign wears out one pair of trousers- every two months and makes provision on this basis although the normal life of a pair of breeches is six months. Every Ev-ery soldier has also an overseas cap that has a felt protector to pull down over his ears. He is not allowed to wear the old Issue of campaign hat that his folks at home are used to seeing. He has wool gloves and one-finger one-finger leather mittens over them and each soldier is provided with at least three blankets and a waterproof slicker or raincoat. In addition to all tills, every soldier on outdoor duty lias a leather waistcoat waist-coat to wear beneath his overcoat-This overcoat-This leather waistcoat is newly Issued and much admired. Apart from what the men have on them and in their possession, the quartermaster's quar-termaster's corps in France has in well distributed stocks available for issus: Breeches and trousers, 1.504,-000 1.504,-000 pairs wool coats 200,000; under -drawers, 5.000,000.000; undershirts 2,-714,000; 2,-714,000; wool gloves 2,960,000; leather waistcoats or jerkins 1.OGS.000; mittens mit-tens 74G.000; overcoats 379,500; wool spiral puttees 1.71S.000; field shoes 2,570,000; wool (). D. flannel shirts 2,-349,000; 2,-349,000; slickers 633,000; heavy wool stockings 7,807,000; blankets 721,900. This after the quartermasters corps ni France turned over to the Medical corps more than one hundred thousand blankets. |