Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-17
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE HAS BUILT AN IMMENSE SYSTEM WAREHOUSES
SEVERAL SQUARE MILES OF
 BUILDINGS, BALEO HAY BY THE ACRE AND OTHER SUPPLIES IN VAST QUANTITIES AWAIT DE- MAND OF OUR TROOPS IN FIELD

AMERICAN REGULATING BASE, ADVANCE ZONE, France, Nov. IA (Correspondence of the Associated Press Warehouses stretching over several square miles, baled hay by the acre piled 5p feet in height and otL-r vast quantities of supplies needed to maintain the American army mark this distributing center as one of the points where one obtains an adequate idea of the tremendous push America is putting into the war.
 This vast accumulation of supplies is necessary to keep trainloadI 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 precision so that no division, no matter what its losses in material, need suffer.
 Each warehouse is a hive of in- dustry, with the supplies moving out from one side to the front, and nov l 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 will be main tained 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 me chanical devices. Squads of soldiers were making the final tests. and the rattle of guns sounded like an early morning skirmish on the firing line.
 Almost as noisy as the machine guns were the machines for baling hay which stretched in long batteries like threshing machines, devouring the stocks of loose hay and turning 1t out | in compact bundles for the artillery and cavalry horses.
 Farther on the balloon sheds were turning out the big gas bags 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, de- pending on the number lost or de- stroyed along the front, and the vary ing activities of the different sectors.
 Near by 1900 German prisoners were at work piling fuel wood. It 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 a will, while Ameri- | can guards with rifles ready stood at the summit of the huge piles or wood to see there was no stacking.
 Another 700 German prisoners had arrived the night before, so soon after | there will be 250O of these workers handling picks and shoyels instead of rifles.
 This is the headquarters also for | the salvage carried on at the front, and for the extensive system of steril- | izing and delOusing. As the vast de bris of the battlefields is gathered up broken cannon and guns, ammuni- tion, harness, tentage, etc.-it comes back here in huge masses to be as sembled and forwarded to the biz salvage station at Tours.
 The sterilizing system also radiates ! from here, and while the actual work is done at the front, yet the regulating is all carried on here, with stacks of clothing, underclothing, shoes, etc, moving forward constantly to meet the requirements of this systematic cleansing.
 Gas attacks have developed the greatest need for thorough cleansing. for often after one of these attacks every stitch of clothing of the gas patients has to be destroyed. and all the blankets and equipment which have the faintest trace of the deadly fumes, and this in turn calls for a complete re-outfit of clothing and equipment of all those exposed to the 0as