GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16354, 10 April 1915, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS

SUBMARINES FOE POLA. ROME, April 8. Germany has sent three additional large submarines to Pola (in the Adriatic) in sections. ARMY SERVICE COEPS. COMPLETENESS OF ORGANISATION. IMMENSE STOCKS OF MATERIALS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, April 8. "Eye-witness" describes the • bases through which the troops and materials pass to the front. The keynote of the handling of such a vast amount of material is simplicity and labour-saving. On arrival cargoes are stored in large sheds and divided into sections, "wherefrom one day's supplies for the troops dependent on this base are collected daily. The pens are close to the railways, each pen containing the quantity consumed by. an army corps or headquarters. The next day the contents of the pens are loaded straight on to the train. Medical comforts and petrol are. kept' separately, and the meat is retained in the - refrigerating steamers until they are empty. Trucks containing this commodity are added to the trains when finally marshalled. Hundreds of field ovens, baking 90 loaves of l|lb "weight are being gradually supplemented by steam travelling ovens, capable of baking 4000 /loaves a day. An enormous staff is required to cope with the increasing stream of materials. In one place, 1400 men are working in a gigantic beehive. Despite the complexities of the position everything is regulated by a spirit of strictest order. When it is remembered that the men employed ■were never before subject to military discipline, and were accustomed to an atmosphere of trade disputes, the smootli wording speaks wonders for the good spirit prevailing in all ranks. At the main ordnance base 1700 men sleep in wooden berths constructed in tiers in a large ■warehouse. AMERICA SUPPLYING MUNITIONS. GERMAN PRESS SATIRE. A CLOUDY COMMENT. ' J LONDON, April 9. (Received April 9, at 10 p.m.) The Cologne Gazette publishes an articX. entitled " America : What Will It Cost?" suggesting that •if nothing else will induce. America to stop supplying munitions' to the Allies the Germans might be willing to buy off American cash with a billion or two of what she'was making out of an unholy traffic in German and Austria* lives.