Tommy Atkins' Daily Bread.
An officer has recently compiled some interesting figures on the food allowance mado bo bho soldiery of different nabiona, and argues bhab the better the rations the better the fighters.
For instance, the ca. c of the victorious Japs in the late Chiuo-Japanese war is cited. The Chinese troops subsisted mainly on rice, together with whab they could pilfer, while the Japanese soldiers had rice, binned and fresh meats, fish, and vegebablea. The meab allowance of a Japanose soldier is 7oz. The Russian standard is 16oz, the English 12oz, the Italian lloz, French, Belgian, Turkish, and Gorman 9oz, Austrian aud Spanish Soz. The daily allowance of bread is highest among fcho Austrian troops, who receive 320z, and the lowest ia the English Array, where oach man is allowed 16oz, .bub then ha haa a larger amounb of ofcho'r, foods, besides bebter pay, allowed him. 'In bhe Unibed States Army, tho French.Army, and the Ibalian Army tho allowance is 22oz t In the German Army ib is 2Soz, in bhe Russian 17oz. Nearly all modern soldiers have a daily allowance of rice.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 77, 3 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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