THE ARMY'S JAM

Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 7

THE ARMY'S JAM

2.000,000L8 A WEEK FOR FRANCE. Very nearly 2,000,0C01h of jam in papTeimache containers is sent to France every week, and in April this vear the Contracts Department has ordered 260.000,00011). Twelve varieties are issued, among which strawberry, it is stated, largely preponderates. The soft Indfc crop of 1914 was already on the market when the war began, and the jam manufacturers had to rely entirely on apple and stone fruit, crops to meet the Government contracts. Hence the. ''plum and apple" of war notoriety. Last year Australia, New Zealand, and South "Africa supplied 41,000,0C01b of jam and it was thus possible to supply freshfruit jam at seasons when it could not be obtained at Home. Tire daily ration at. the front'includes 3oz of cheese. To enable this 'lssue to be made the Army Contracts Department had, up to the beginning of this year, purchased 167,000,0001b of cheese, ' and between one and two million pounds are being sent every week to the army in France alone. More than half a million pounds of tea are sent weekly to the army in Fro nee. Before the War Office became its own tea merchant single orders for a million pounds were no uncommon thing. The daily ration is just' over half an ounce.