LIVED ON TRAIN

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2644, 13 October 1919, Page 3

LIVED ON TRAIN

bdltH DUUtIbAF MAIDS gi’AUTKKS Not much was heard during the war of (.he train which was km d Douglas Haig's mobile headquarters during active operations. The silence which was necessary for so long may' pardonably' bo broken now Whose the idea first ''as is not dclinite'v kaov n, but those concerned in the sudden moves ol bI.M (,). be I ore the train svstem was. adopted blessed him. Documents and maps and all the impediun.nta of the staff bad formeily to be packed on lorries, and with Hie best wdl in tin* world, backed by the best organisation, k v a> impossible to have tilings unpacked and straightened mil Into working older at the uov licadqn.ii tei.? before some irate (5.5.D. came thundering for documents that ceid.d not immediately be found ten vs the • Man •iiester (Juardian ’)• The train'changed all that. It was a compact combination of a lir.-l-cl u-s bold and an up-to-date office. It was titled throughout with t-dephmu-s and silk-shaded decide lights that i.m-t a dim,riel and c. infortahie radiate.* in the thickly-carpeted comjiai tmenls. .Mere v-eie rang'd the officos aid Ikflrooms of the prim opal offioers of the general stall'. Clean, v.lhie paint and iiolis.hed brass, smoke: onms with deep saddl'bag armchairs. cosv dining rooms, Kiuhioom.- -di these we-ie mi the wonderful train; and win n a change of position was decided on all that was vie co- saw wn to sc! the locomotive going. There was no need to disLni 1) a single man or paper, and mm hj was saved in good Inrnoi and smooth working.