Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-19

1 tise of meat needed for the army a 1 few miles away.
 The cattle are, for the most part, driven in 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 reached the division headquarters they are fat and sleek.
 The slaughter house, of course, has 1 been found entirely too small for the amount of work that has to be done there, especially in that department where meat is salted or pickIed- In l default of receptacles therefore the | army has requisitioned bathtubs and sels, and in them lie thousands of pounds of meat. A thousand pounds or wurst a 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, for merly manufacturing establishment whose brick ovens have been found to lend themselves very well to the baking of 16.Ooo loaves of bread a third of white flour and two thirds rye flour, weighs 1,500 grams. Where the necessary railroad 1 tracks did not exist they have been built so that there is easy and ef- | icient railway connection with these
 
 | food necessities of the army-meat and bread
 Perhaps less important and vital but more interesting are the estab- | l1shments where damaged artillery and guns are repaired and put into | shape for use at the front again. In these plants also 1t has been found feasible to employ French civilians at many kinds of work, so that they may earn their livelihood, be inde- nGndenT m hl dTaa 11YOn Ina German authorities who are support ing 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 fighting. They come in with damages that in many cases are quite as freakish as the in | juries sustained by the soldiers, and | are repaired with quite as much in genuity as are seemingly impossible l 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 | shattered and twisted wheels and rid | dled steel shields to worn out bores and broken muzzles.
 In a carpenter shop French work men, aided and superinteuded by
 
 other part machine guns are made | whole, oftentimes by using the un- | damaged parts of two. three or more weapons. In. still another building
 new muzzles are moulded and put i onto undamaged trucks.
 screwed into the ground Thus at- | hoops of wire that can be stretched | in front of a trench in an emergency | at moments notice and can be made fast by stakes of steel that are I | tackers whose artillery has demolish- 1 ed the usual entanglements of bar5ed wire can still be checked for a time | at least.
 i Quantities of English cable wagons have been captured at one time or | another These wagons are nothing more than square wooden boxes mounted on a wheeler, from which | telephone wire can be paid out.
 They have, however. been found to make excellent machine gun ammuni- l tion wagons, and are turned to their new use by the simple expedieut of | being fitted with pigeon hole com partments.
 In conjunctionn with the machine | shop there is shoe shop and a leath- CT shop, where broken saddles are l mended, and where the straps for ar | ttl!ery wagons, rifles and knapsacks are put into order ono more. It is | the exception rather than the rule | that any piece of apparatus used at | the front is damaged so badly that i it cannot be mended here or that it
 has to be sent back to Germany. | In point of interest to the casual visitor, the prize of the division head quarters is the 'SammeIstelle'' or | collection point the junk pile con- | taining the SWeepingS of the battle field would be a better name where l every conceivable object from bits of rubber to brkeno bayonets and cart
 ridge shells is collected and sorted 1 out.
 1 soldier first or last finds it's way to
 his big building and there is subject ed to the scrutiny of junk experts The cartridges that remain are laid
 to one side, to be reapportioned to some other fighter The drinking f1asks or bottles are similarly weeded
 out, and the clothes that still are fit to wear are placed in pile saccord- ing to their character.
 The bayonets go to one department where they are carefully cleaned and
 put in shape for use again. The rifles they include not only German but | French, English, Belgium and Rus
 sian guns-are thoroughly overhauled and oiled and come out looking like 1 new Every piece of equipment that still has value is renovated.
 After every battle in which the Ger ! | is literally secured, and all the junk 1 is transported to headquarters. Scores Of ripped and torn auto tires are col | lected and sent to an establishment | where the rubber can be utilized in the making of new tubes
 A big laundry establishment with a capacity of over 100000 garments in | less than a month cleans old clothes
 after they have been repaired and puts them into shape for further use nVT1 r1F T l supply has been exhausted.
 A spur of the railroad track runs 1 directly to the end of the "Sammel- | stelle" and carts away to Germany 1 huge quantities of scrap that has ev- 1 cry appearance of being worthless but l which later IS to appear in newly manufactured form. Not one thing l with any possible value is wasted | The division headquarters very nat
 urally has not only the hospital facil- 1 ities that are common to most Ger man cities but also a medicament 1 headquarters. In a wholesale drug