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Nelson Evening Mail, 2 August 1916, Page 2

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MUNITION ORCANISATION. "Doing Their Bit." by Boyd Cable (Hodder and vStongh(on) tells of the munition work? in Kngland, which have come into existence since the war befall. The farts pi von. show what organisation, what; skill. what energy, has been required to conceive, to plan. to execute the whole work, to build an:l equip it -and set it running in -i matter of mere-'months. The author, who was at the Front from the beginning of the war. says. "I remember how in the firstwinter we at the Front looked forward to the spring, and listened hopefully to the tales of a flooding tide of munitions that was to help us in the Big Push. I remember how we hung on through thewinter, enduring the punishment that came to us because the shortage of shells, of bombs, of trench-mortars, and machine-guns; and I knew how grimly the Front stuck out the punishment and hung on stubbornly with a- tremendous firith that, come the spring, all would be well, that new armies would be coming along to help carry the weight, that munitions would be pouring out to help us level the long tally. And 1 know, too well the bitter disappointment and the black rage that filled the Fro-it when spring came and brought us, not a plenty of munitions, but tales of a- great shortage, stories of strikes and shirkers, woeful cries of a wasted 'winter. . but these tilings are past, and, with the Front, I am glad to leave them and :ct bygones be bygones." The book is full of interest and gives the reader a capi f al idea of the huge efforts which are no>v bein<T made in England to supplv the FrQiit with the necessary material to win the war. "Odd Shots "by One of the_ .Jocks" (Hodder and Stoughtow) is the title of a number of sketches descriptive the experiences of the men at, the- Front, and will be read with interest. "The Rose Garden Husband" by Margaret Widdemer (Hodder and Stdnghton) is a happy-ever-after love story, and will be .found to l>e as full of beautv and tenderness as a rose-gardeii itself, and, as "Punch" -says, is a really., cheerful novel.