WHARVES AND WAR.

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 22, 13 November 1943, Page 1

WHARVES AND WAR.

KAWISON T S celebrated - • statement that ” an amy :, marches on it s stomach ” places the emphasis not upon.food as such, but upon supply lines which convey food and mate rials of war in a camps 1 . The rapid development of submarines and defensive measures such as depth charges, radio location & many other devices, to take only one -instance, underlines how important, as supply lines, ships are ira modern warfare. It is unnecessary to comment on the way in which shipping and wharves attract bombers as a magnet docs steel; " and this applies not only to established wharves in metropolitan ? areas,, but also’ to make - shift jetties w somewhere in the Pacific V : : ? THS work of loading and - •unloading, the conditions under which it is done & , the location of such spots arc all"security” in every sense of the? word. This means that -Wharf personnel must work in obscurity, poked away on some hidden spot, deprived of many simple amenities enjoyed by other Units - they stick at their work with a spirit deserving admiratio

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