The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-01-16
FANCY DISHES FOR
THE ALLIED TROOPS
BY H. M. Earle

(Un1ted Press stan Correspondent
LONDON, Dec. 23 (by mail to New
York )-"W We are learning to make all
sorts of fancy dishes that would make
first class menu for any hotel, -
writes Corporal T. Harper, of the Duke
of Cornwall's Light Infantry, in a
CHEEKY letter home. "Have you ever
tried Jack johnson soupg This is how
you make it, You get the ual stuff
in a pot and set it on to boil just
within range of the German guns. By
and by a "Jack Johnson shell comes
along and drops into your soup, serv
ing out the contents very literally
among all who happen to be near
enough, whether they said they were
going to skip the soup course or not.
fThen there IS seoalbox outlets You
get tin of bully beef, and cut out
few strips with any old knife you
can lay your hands on. You put the
beef on a slice of bread, and before
you have time to looG around, scoal
box shell drops on you, and your beef
is nicely seasoned, if it is still there,
or if you are able to take any further
interest in beef. We make speciality
of nice shrapnel teas. What YOU do is
light fire and set water to boil in
your billy can. When ii is nicely aboil
the smoke from the fire attracts the
Germans and their guns begin to drop
shrapnel all over the place. Just as
you are going to raise the can to your
mouth to take big drink of tea
shrapnel bullet drops into it, and you
are lucky if you havea t a call to make
on the regimental doctor or under
taker.
All this makes meal times very much
more exciting and entertaining than
at home, so you will have to start an
association for frightening up meal
times unless you want us to be terribly
bored when we get back
Lord Kitchener is a firm believer in
Wellington s old doctrine, "When
things are getting mixed up, hang
contractor and as result there
have been less graft and jobbery dur
ing the present war than there was in
South Africa. K. of K has allowed
to be plainly known that any con-
tractor who plays the country false
during his administration will hang,
and it is reliably reported that one
wealthy money grabber's fate is in
the balance. The crookedness discov-
cred has not been so serious as might
have been the case under another War
Secretary, but Kitchener think it
would be fine time to make an exam
pie, as he holds that tampering with
clothing, supplies, ammunition, etc,
treason. King George supports him in
bial h.,+ of Ga l.
met minister's are urging that the cul-
prit S crime is not sufficiently serious
to Justify the extreme penalty.
" Although I have had rough time
in the past, this campaign beats all, -
writes French soldier to friends in
Essex. My hair has gone almost
white in the first two months. / have
not slept in bed for 112 days, nor
undressed ten times in all-aIways on
the move, night and day. For as many
as three days and two nights / have |
been without meal or sleep. But |
am as full of life as ever, anxious to |
get back to Ypres, whence / have just |
come. 1t does one good to hear not a
note of Encouragement in either of
our noble armies We live, and are
prepared to die, in hope -
Armageddon may soon be an actuali-
ty, instead of a mere metaphor. In
letter to the "Speetator" Lieut.. Gen.
Tyrrell points out that for the protec-
tion of the Suez canal and Egypt, the
correct strategy for Great Britain
would involve the occupation of Jaffa,
Jerusalem and Acre, and the cutting
Of the Heijas railway line. In this
event, he observes, sbattle would be
fought on the very site of Har Megid-
do, or Armageddon.