Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-06


 tivities. The magnitude of military operations during the conflict that has just closed ,snd the character and variety of it's requirements have been such as to completely dominate the in, dustrial energy and the economic re- sources of every nation that has play ed an important part in the struggle.
 Our declaration of war immediately involved every human being in this country and every activity of our na- tional life. When we decided to place armies in Europe we had at once to direct the whole industrial effort of tho country to lhe manufacture of munitions of war, and, nowadays when a nation at war is but another term for a nation in arms" munitions of war include raw materials of every na- ture, and, in some degrees, every article manufactured for use in peace and, in addition, a vast number of articles manufactured only for mili- tary purposes.
 All Fed Into Huge Army Reservoir
 As these articles became available, they were shipped to France and fed into our gredc reservoir for the SUD- ply of the armies at the front This reservoir was located in the quadrilat- eral of which ihe four corners are roughly marked by the towns of St Nazaire, Is-su-T;iie, Marseilles and Bayonne.
 Although one supply department alone, the quartermaster corps, up to December, 1918, purchased supplies in Europe to the extent of S332, ,0OO, ,0O0, the prime dependence of the A. E. F. afor its supplies was on the United States. These supplies were received at our main base ports of St. Nazaire, La Rochelle, Bordeaux and Marseilles
 At these ports supplies were sorted and forwarded to the intermediate de- pot and then to the advance depots. In the intermediate depot and particu- larly in the advance depots. supplies were so balanced and stored that an intermediate depot such as Gievres and an advance depot such as Is-sur- Tile could meet all the needs of an army except for certain things which had to be stored separately. such as ammunition and gas material
 Southern French Ports Used
 Upon the arrival of the first Ameri- can troops in France it became neces- sary to form some kind of a plan to get the supplies to the front line. The ports of northern France, such as La Havre, Cherbourg, Calai and Boulogne were being used to their full capacity by the English, who were just across the English channel and were the nearest ports to their troops who held the northern section of the front line. So it seemed advisable to bring the American supplies into the more southern ports of France, where war material was at that time not using the full capacity of these ports So the ports of St. Nazaire, La Rochelle and Bordeaux were selected as the American ports and then a straight line was drawn from these ports to the sector on the front line which had been assigned to the American forces, which was the front west of Lorraine.
 Half way between these ports and the front line a spot was selected on which the bulk of the reserve supplies was to be stored and on this spot was built what is now known as the Camp of Gievres.
 $7oo,ooo,oo in Supplies
 When visited the Camp of Gievres a few weeks ago, I had the oppor- tunity of riding over the camp on a special car with Col. c. J. Symmonds, the commanding officer of the camp, and after riding for about three hours up and down the various tracks lead ing to the many warehouses, 1 asked the colonel about how much money was represented in the supplies stored in the camp and he stated that at the time the last invoice was taken the supplies amounted to something like $700, ,000 ,000, although no exact invoice could be taken by reason of the rapid change in the supplies from day to day. I thought possibly he had made a mistake and asked him again if he didn't mean $7,OOO, 900, but he smiled and said, no, it/is $700,000,000, and there was in camp at that time some $16,000,000000 worth of copper wire, about -18,0O0,0O0 worth of gasoline and he ran down a list of dozen items of which there was over $10,000, ,000 worth of each item.
 90 Days Supply for Each Man
 Before the khaki-clad "Yanks" be. gan to cross the Atlantic in large number sto battle with the Hun, the Cine. of the American Expedition. ary Forces decided that each man should have 8 9Q-day reserve supply