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Show .UPPLIES ALWAYS ON HANJ)j Jritish Claim to Have Made Transport System to the Front as Perfect as Is Possible. When it Is mentioned that 2.000 tons of goods food and other necessities are sent every day from Ihe base depots de-pots to the firing line of the British army, some idea of the gigantic task of the army service will be gathered. This enormous weight of goods, says Harold Hegbie, comes almost entirely from England, for we are not buying in France even so perishable a necessity neces-sity as milk. Vast stores are brought from England and loaded into sheds at the base depots. All day by motor dory and railway truck supplies for the troops are sent out from these base depots to stores as near as possible to the firing lines. And just as reserves are accumulated in the docks, so reserves are accumulated accumu-lated near the front, since an accident to the railways might cut off the fighting fight-ing soldiers' supplies. On one occasion there was a delay on the railways of 36 hours, but not only did the soldier at the front get all his food and ammunition, but he did not even have to draw on the reserves re-serves I have mentioned; regimental stores were sufficient for his need. Everything goes by clockwork. There Is no room for an accident. London Tit-Bits. |