BIG ORDERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 1 November 1918, Page 5

BIG ORDERS.

(N.-Z.Y.M.C.A. War News Service) (Special 'to the “Stratford Post.”) x Paris, August 31.

One billion three •hmj.cired and fifty million cigarettes and almost a billion cookies are two of the enormous orders for supplies just placed by the Y.M.U. A. for distribution to the American troops in France and which give some idea of the magnitude of the service rendered *hy the Red Triangle organisation. A small realisation of the little comforts our fighters crave and the amount they can consume is conveyed in the 1 .M.C.A.’s orders for 810,000,000 cookies, representing Tot) carloads, 93,750,000 sticks of gum, 112,000,000 bars of chocolate, 1,300,000,000 cigarettes and 7,500,000 jars of jam and marmalade. These goods have been contracted for and will be exhausted before Christmas.