The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-11-19
PUSH IS
SEEN IN SUPPLIES
MILITARY WAREHOUSES; COVER
MANY SQUARE MILES IN ADJ
VANCE ZONES.
AMERICAN REGULATING BASE.

AMERICAN REGULATING BASE,
ADVANCE ZONE. FRANCE
Correspondence of the Associated
Press) Warehouses stretching over
several square miles, baled hay by
the acre piled thirty feet in height
ana other vast quantities of supplies
needed to maintain the American
army mark this distributing center
as one Of the points where one OBJ
talns an adequate idea of the ire
mendous push America is putting in
to the war.
This vast accumulation of supplies
IS necessary to keep trainloads of
food, clothing, ammunition trucks,
wagons, wheelbarrows, medical
stores and the whole range of the
army wants moving forward in a
huge daily traffic with unvarying pre-
clslon so that no division, no matter
what its losses in material. need suf-
fer,
Each warehouse is hive of indus
try, with the supplies moving out
from one side to the front and NOV
ing in from the other side as the
steady streams of supplies flow in
from the American base ports so that
the full quota always be maintained
here.
At one point machine guns were
being tested before going forward to
the front This was in the machine
gun section of the ordnance park,
with a vast array of these deadly
mechanical devices. Squads of sol
diers were making the final tests and
the rattle of guns sounded like an
earl y morning skirmish on the firing
line.
Baled Hay for Horses.
Almost as noisy as the machine
guns were the machines for baling
hay which stretched in long batteries
like threshing machines, devouring
the stacks of loose hay and turning
1t out in compact bundles for the ar
tillery and cavalry horses.
Farther on the balloon sheds were
turning out the big gasbags for use
on observation along the front.
These are assembled and packed, and
some of the parts are made here.
Like everything else, the supply of
balloons must be finally regulated
here, depending on the number lost
or destroyed along the front, and the
varying activities of the different
sectors.
Nearby 1900 German prisoners
were at work piling fuel wood. 1t
was a hot autumn day. and the air
was heavy and gray with the dust of
the immense traffic going on. But
the prisoners did not seem to mind
the creature discomforts. but bent to
their work with will. while Amer
lean guards with rifles ready stood
at the summit of the huge piles of
wood to see there was no Stacking.
Another 100 German prisoners had
| arrived the night before, so soof,
there will be $500 of these workers
I handling picks and shovels instead of
rifles.
Salvage Headquarters.
This is the headquarters also for
The salvage carried on at the front,
and for the extensive system of ster-
liking and delousing. AS the vast
debris of the battlefelds is gathered
up-broken cannon and guns, ammu-
milton, harness, tentage, etc.-it
comes back here in huge masses to
be assembled and forwarded to the
big salvage station at Tours.
The sterilizing system also radiates
from here, and while the actual work
is done at the front, yet the regu-
lating is all carried on here, with
stacks of clothing, Undertaking,
shoes, etc, moving forward con-
stantly to meet the requirements of
this systematic. cleansing.