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Show Our Iceland Force Is Well Equipped Has Comforts mid Clothing Siiperior to British. REYKJAVIK, ICELAND. A regiment regi-ment of trained soldiers recruited from the factories and farms' of Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky and with a history studded with battle honors from Bull Run to the Ar-gonne, Ar-gonne, forms a prominent part of the American fighting force on Iceland. Ice-land. Most striking is their superiority in clothing, articles of comfort and armament over British infantry here. Like old soldiers the Americans settled down in their heated, stormproof storm-proof Nissen huts. There were no complaints about the cold. One company has an orderly room which would put some of the British officers messes to shame. Its furnishings included overstuffed chairs and couches of modern de- sign, a table tennis outfit, radio and magazine rack. In the officers club the Americans are preparing for a dance for army nurses and local girls. The club has the same furnishings as that for the enlisted men with the addition addi-tion of a "juke box," bar and four slot machines. Over the bar is the newly designed red, white and blue "insigne of Field Force Four, the regimental insigne and the Great Seal of the United States. Enlisted men and officers have plenty of blankets and heavy clothing cloth-ing against the arctic blasts. In addition to the blue denim work clothes, field and garrison uniforms and coats, they have received fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes and heavy underclothes and socks. The men are eager to show the workings of their new Garand rifles. |