EIGHTH ARMY’S FARE
(Roc. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Dee. 22. The Eighth Army’s Father Christmas is Major John Prentice, who is working with the British canteen service to give the army its Christmas dinner, says the Daily Mail’s Cairo correspondent. It is really a tough proposition this year, said Major Prentice. Maybe it will he humanly impossible to deliver turkeys. chickens, and pork to the most advanced troops who are moving swiftly, but they will get their Christmas dinner as early as possible. I have to distribute 35,000!bs of turkey, 16.0001 b of ducks, geese, and chickens, and 30,000 1h cf pork, hut this good faro does not keep, so it becomes a problem of timing. Thousands of turkeys have gone forward by sea and train, anti other fare, including Christmas puddings and cakes, is streaming by road far into Tripolitania.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 21, 23 December 1942, Page 2
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