MILLIONS OF SANDBAGS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 8

MILLIONS OF SANDBAGS.

Millions of sandbars are needed a! the front. This is the burden of the following appeal received in England from Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Tyler, R.F.A. :-r"lt is quite mild spring weather with us now. Now we do not want any more mufflers or caps for warmth, * but we always waut sandbags by the million • and if the kivif! people 'who have helped us so gre:ii-ly during the winter with warm knitter.; things wanted still to help, tiiey cor.lv not do better than make sandbags fox* our protection. "We must have hundreds of millions of sandbags in use, and v,o alwnvs want them. To make a nice, commodious house for a few officers in their gun position, for instance, will require some 2000 sandbags, and the minioer wanted for a single battery for protection -for the guns, men, officer^, and telephone opWators will run into tens of thousands. "A mile of trenches will require perhaps 100,000, and each little post, ob- ; nervation station, or shelter of any I kind behind those trenches requires ! many more. Then every house, barn, jor other locality occupied in the-arei |in which shells'fall for a depth of two or three miles behind our trenches ought to have its own dug-out for use when necessary, into the making oi which the sandbag enters. "And when we advance we have not time to empty our old sandbags and carry them on. We require fresh ones." '