Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-11
GERMAN SYSTEM
IN FIELD DEALS
W|THEVERYTH|NG
MinuteSt Details Are Cared for
and Armies on Fighting
Lines Are Carefully Supplied
All the Time.

one-tlme prosperous ana BUSY city
that now contains almost as many
German soldiers as 1t does French in
habitants, is one of the "Haupt-
punkte" or chief points in the re-
markabe lines of communication
front trenches.
Even casual inspection of this
link in the wonderful chain of COM
munications reveals one of the rea-
sons why Germany is able to contest
stubbornly every effort of its oppo-
nents to recapture the territory that
has been taken, and why its soldiers
are possessed of necessities, and even
Injuries, that were unheard of in
earlier wars.
Various such "Hautpunkte" exists
all along the long battle line, and
from each there stretch out fan-shape
lines to within a short distance OF the
trenches. Along these ribs of the fan
there are transported daily the enor-
nous quantities of food. ammunition
and clothing that are needed
The "Hauptpunkte" may be called
for want Of better name a division
Headquarters in the lines of commu-
nication. The headquarters has.
roughly, two functions. the preparing
and forwardin of food and hmmuni-
ton, and the repairln of material that
has broken down under the strain Of
battle.
In the city recently visited by an
Associated Press correspondent the
German authorities have requistion-
ed the slauhter house OF a one-time
French butcher, and in it are method
ically preparing the enormous guam
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few miles away. s
The cattle are, for the most part,
driven from Germany. For miles as
one approaches the city one can see
the herds grazing on the rich French
fields. BY the time they have reach
ed the division headquarters they are
fat and sleek.
The slaughter house, of course, has
been found entirely too small for the
amount of work that has to be done
there, especially in that department
where meat Is sailed or picked. In
default of receptacles therefore the
army has requisitioned bath tubs and
similar inappropriate but useful YES
sells, and in them lie thousands of
pounds of meat. A thousand pounds
of wurst day is prepared for the
front, as well as many hundreds of
pounds of beef, mutton and pork.
Within a hundred yards of the
slaughter house is the bakery, form
erly manufacturing establishment
whose brick ovens have been found
to lend themselves very we'll to the
baking of 10000 loaves of bread a
day. Each loaf, composed of one
third of white flour and two-thirds
rye -four, weighs 1,500 grams.
Where the necessary. railroad
tracks did not exist they have been
built so that there is easy and eff
cient railway, connection with these
two plants that supply the two MANI
fod necessities of the army--meat and
bread
General Repair shops.
Perhaps less important and vital
but more interesting are the estab-
lshments where damaged artillery
and guns are repaired and put into
shape for use at the front again. In
thes plants also II has been found
feasible to employ French civilians at
many kinds of work, so that they
may earn their livelihood, be in
dependent, and not be a drag upon
the German authorities who are sup
porting many of the city's inhabitants.
From all along the front there
come to former machine shop the
guns of all bores that have been put
out of commission in the fitting.
They come in with DAMAGES that in
many cases are quite as freakish as
the injuries sustained by the soldiers,
and are repaired with quite as much
ingenuity as are seemingly impossible
disablements of the human body.
Nor are the worst damages always
the result of the fire from the other
side of the line. Thus there are guns
that have been literally torn apart
from the explosions of shells prema-
turely. The damages range from
died steel shields to worn out bores
and broken muzzles.
In carpenter shop French work.
men, aided and superintendent by Ger
mans remake the wheels. In another
part machine guns are made whole,
ottentimes by using the unchanged
parts of two, three or more weapons.
In still another building new muzzles
are moulded and put onto undamag-
ed trucks.
Here also are prepared the great
hoops of wire that can be stretched
IN 'front.' of a trench in an emergency
at a moments notice and can he
made fast by stakes of steel that are
screwed into the ground. Thus at
uckers whose artillery has demoraliz-
Cd the usual entanlements of barbed
wire can still be checked for a time
at least,
Quantities of English cable wagons