BIG ORDER FOR RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 12 August 1942, Page 2

BIG ORDER FOR RUSSIA

ACTIVITIES OF Q.M. STORES (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) Rugby, Aug. 11. In four days Russia was supplied with three million yards f greatcoat cloth, enough to stretch from the White to the Black Sea, said General Sir Walter Venning, Quartermaster General, who. in retiring after three and a half years in office, described some of the multifarious activities * the Q"~’•termaster General’s department. He added that these activities involved precision storage and distribution of every commodity ch the army required except medical stores in order that the army cculd live and fight. The military personnel of the rdnance corps had ex panded 3000 per cent, inoe 1939. The close liaison between the army and the Ministry of Food and leading scientists enabled the army to follow scientific development. The army investigated dehydrated foods and boneless meat before the war and the. were now in supply to-day. During air raids army vehicles delivered ” inking water and ess itial foodstuffs in huge areas like London, Birmingham and Coventry. Besides road and rail services in Britain the department also under, ok rail construction abroad, including Libya where 26 miles of track v/er. laid in one week. It also built new deep./ater docks in more than one part of the world capable of taking large ocean jo 'g ships. General Vennins is succeeded by Lieutenant-General Hiddell-Webster, who has had much experience in In- •’ and the Middle East. B. >- vv -