BOOTS OF VICTORY.

Mataura Ensign, 14 February 1916, Page 6

BOOTS OF VICTORY.

IJKST KK'i) AM) \HMY. After almesi a -urieii „, .f eryation of Knad and h',oit- 1 may --y ;■'• n hout n-tiv r".-.T:i<". on thai- tne Hntisl! Army in >■■■■ .i«'-l '- '"- , l !' ' IIJ i"" 1 shod than an- a'-iv in hisiery (writes a i orrespomien; Iniiu iK'Hei'd fJeajlquarter- in Kranee). 1 1.> !'■';■( nji'l i l * ■ smiaeh, the two meml'.er- on «hieh an .•■••;ny m a relies, are tendi'd lo peii'i'Ct ion. ';.. achieve this the Ordnance and the S- rvievi Corps have <"■ one of ilie larue.s\, ivnd most successful venture.-, in"Socialist, organisation over carrled throiifl' l '»' I'-n-i l '--' 1 I tpcak afrcr a second visit, u, one of the most interest imr. if not the largest, liases id |''ri.iu<e. and the increase both I in scalo ami por)'.oeti<m *r d-'tai.! is very | I .\c the winter advances a casrarlc- o. ]be!.*.-. i-teacidv .im-reasinjj; in volume. |rome> from tin- front, each bea>iii-/ ei■ deiico of th,' di.-inreL£rat : clI feci, of l-'lemihli mud ami water.. I (e----casiuualiv anions then is a (iennaii hout. We ta'k u d-a! ol C:e wastage of men, but ivh.it of the win-l-of iMiot.sl-' SIX WKF.KS' LrVl". i The liu.'a •. life of the ht-t leailmr Li,,'t 'ii feu ii am ik ; s ahoilt. S ; N weeks ,>o far as u«e su'e is conc.ei m'd :. aii'd we know (on-many to I,e ?-)|(irt. of leather. AVe ■■■ '-elves are conservir.:'. liMit'ler to t' 1 . :r nost. Ilcpa 'rina: sliojis that v- ■■ul.i •■;: "iivv in Northampton I „i'" i sialrishe In several parks of i iM-aiu-t-. V.vrv, , !i.Ldb'"e bor.t I,:' res-oled hy exp"ri.s. Used with the best nails, and -oaked in oil fa work done in part by women) tiil it is is i ss.am as canvas. I do not think I ever -e con'i(]e;it ol \ I'l "I".' as whet. I sjiW the ci Wii <>: ii'ii'e .ml fully recoVei\ i! ]-;;.lieilts- :. e. .line: I rem the Ueot h<'Spita! " '.)•■ : 'roni. '. - a cent nisi and as a ie.s>.i>n In . ; IKv .■■ m a (!i'c nn lxiel is ke])t in c. ideu •<■■ at. one of the offices. It is not :>. bad bnol, hut i ; Is •O-'Ht <){ the competition. 'i'l- iiian in search, of honcful feeliipjy iiouitt vuoceed from il'e boot factory to the Ua.keiY. from which proceeds the «-<t'i.-fvi»o- odor of am Ihiuo: ip\ to 90.0(H) l.ia'\-es'. There is- no bettei- bread j than ration bread. I'lvrij in hi'rh (|iia>:- \ ter-s at (Jeneral Headouarters I have soon the ohnrmintr itilks for which Franco is famous rejected for a chunk of ration bread a week ohl. |( T o h.ave done s o many iliin.":s in this wir !c-s "e!l thnr,' our enemies that' it '>. n peculiar o'easure to see svrnethinir about wlich van can wiv with conviction that "rhe Huns cou'tin't do it better." And it would take n bo'd man to deny th't a war cannot be woiv by l>oots iukl hre.nd. r s well as hy howit-