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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918.
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FRENCH FRONT, March 22.—How
the Germans prepare to resist an as
sault by the Allied trooops, who con
tinually harry them along the entire
front, is disclosed in a document which
has just fallen into the hands of the
French. This paper points out that
if, is necessary to be prepared for ev
ery eventuality and to establish in ad
vance ample dumps of ammunition for
several days fighting for the held and
position guns as well as for trench
mortars, since it must be expected
that the Allies will, in case the opera
tion should be on a big scale, employ
poison gas in large quantities and at
the same time put up a barrage fire
between the German front and their
communications with the rear.
The essential reserve of ammuni
tion for the trench mortars is laid
down at 250 projectiles for each light
mortar; 50 projectiles for each trenoh
mortar of middling calibre and 40 pro
jectiles for each heavy mortar. The
mortar emplacements should be sur
rounded by barbed wire entangle
ments and the gunners should be pro
vided with a plentiful supply of hand
grenades for use in the case the Al
lied troops should storm the positions.
As to the field and position artill
lery, each battery should have on hand
sufficient ordinary ammunition to last
three days and a half and also have
ready use a supply of poison-gas
shells.
Great stress is laid on the value of
maintaining communications between
the infantry engaged and the staff in
the rear. Each regiment is ordered
ti appoint an officer responsible for
this service, whose duty shall be to
reconnoitre the line occupied by his
regiment and send frequent reports as
to the situation even when no change
has occurred.
The document recalls that the
French airplanes accompanying the
assaulting infantry during the last
battles around Verdun caused great
disturbance to the Germans. It as
serts that the effectve results obtain
ty these aviators were very limited,
tut that the morale of the German
' troops was considerably upset by
them. It recommends the placing of
special machine gun groups in the
rear of the front lines to deal with
such attacks by enemy airplanes.
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WASHINGTON, March 22.—80 y
and girl gardeners; remember!
Back of every bullet and behind ev
ery shell and over and under every
cloud of poisonous gas and running ev
eiy submarine and directing every air
plane is a man who must keep up his
energies with food."
This was the message given to
America's young folk by the United
States garden army headquarters of
the interior department.
W e might as well as send our men
to the trenches dressed in pajamas
with their bare hands for weapons as
to send our army across without food
to keep them in fighting trim, the mes
sage said.
SHIPPING OF WHEAT
TO ALLIES EXPLAINED
ATLANTA, Ga., March 21. No
question is more frequently asked the
Federal Food Administrator for Geor
gia, and all the other states in fact,
than why we send wheat to Europe
and stint our own people. The first
answer is that we sent wheat to fur
nish a foundation for the mixed cereal
bread that the Allies have eaten for
three years and a half, and not to sup
ply them with a straight wheat bread.
We are now eating victory bread, a
bread that calls for only 20 per cent
wheat substitutes, while Europe since
the outbreak of the war has eaten
;• war gread which contains 25 to 50
per cent substitute. They are asking
us for wheat enough to make this war
bread.
Wheat flour is the only known foun
dation for a bakery loaf. Com meal
and buckwheat can be used in making
cornbread and batter cakes but these
breads cannot be looked on as bakery
products as they will not stand 24
hours handling between the oven and
the table. American women who do
their own baking can make good use
of cornmeal, rice and oatmeal, but
wherever women work in factories or
long hours in the fields, whether in
America or Europe, bakery bread
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Dr. Alonzo Taylor, representative
from the United States Food Adminis
tration to the recent Allied confer
ence in Paris, and an expert on the
food needs o f the world answers the
question in this way:
“We receive many letter at Wash
ington as to why we want to send so
much wheat to Europe when W’e are
told that corn, oatmeal, rice and bar
ley and rye are just as good. They
ask .‘Why don't we keep the wheat
and send them the corn and rye and
barley and rice ’ I will answer that;
We want to send wheat to Europe
because you can make bread of wheat,
and you can't make bread out of rice
and oats and corn. And nobobdy
bakes domestic bread in Europe and
you will find that there are no indi
vidual bakers there. There will be
employed probably two or three men
in the place, who will have one large
hearth, who will be able to bake two
thousand loaves of bread together.
THE AMERICUS THWESRECORDEFL
with a minimum amount of coal.
“The bread is delivered to the hime;
this is one-half of the diet of that
home. It was in peace time and it is
now. In peace times there was con
siedrable sugar, and dairy products
were plentiful. Now these things are
scarce and the bread largely takes
the place of these foods. So the
bread becomes of added importance
from every point of viey. Now r just
visualize this peasant home. Remem
ber that the peasantry in France live
in villages, not on farms, and they
subsist on the small store and bake
shop.
"Please remember that the coal in
France today is sllO and $135 per ton
and they have a good coal supply this
year.
“Justv isualize an American woman
saying: ‘lf the corn, rye. oatmeal and
barley are just as good. I will accept
wheat and send the wheat substitutes
to Europe.’ Remember that bread is
made from wheat. How much work
is it. for her to pr. pare rice or oat-.
meal oi 1 make ora bread? How much i
o< a burden Goes it impose upon the •
overtime of the American woman to-i
day, either with or without servants?
Very little. But it is a burden to
a French woman, who is working six
teen hours a day and taking care of
;; mained soldier, or a tubercular per
son, to deliberately put an hour or an
hour and a half on her per day at
boiling rice or making cornbread,
febeall we put this burden upon her?
This is the concrete situation.” ,
In a statement made March 6, Lord
Reading, British ambassador to the
United States, expressed his appre
ciation and told how greatly beholden '
the Allies are to America for the sup
plies being received over there, : ar-j
ticularly in the matter of food.
“The food situation in Great Britain
today is as serious as it has been since
the war began,*’ he said, “We are now
cn the closest ration as regards meat,
butter, sugar, and margarine that has |
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been in force during the war. But
the situation is being greatly relieved
by what you are shipping to us from
here, especially in cereals. Our
rationing system has the very great
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HERBERT HAWKINS
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advantages that if results in equaliza
tion of treatment among, both the rich
and the poor. Whatever there is to
distribute is now divided up impar
tially.”
