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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1918. . YANKEE TROOPS HAVE FOOD FOR THREEJONTHS Vast Amount of Provisions Is in the Warehouses of France to Be Cooked for Soldiers. Tours, Central France, Sept. 21 The American army in Europe could be fed and clothed and all its crea ture comforts looked after for three months if not another pound of sup plies was secured. This was the statement made here by officers of the army quartermaster's depart ment, which directs the mammoth work of supplies. It gives an idea of the vast stock of reserve resources stored in the miles of warehouses stretching from the coast inland to the fighting line, and it is a comforting assurance, too, that this huge reserve will be kept up through the coming winter period so that the American sol dier's warmth, as well as his food and clothing, will be fully looked after. Huge Undertaking. It is a huge undertaking to feed a million men even for a single day a million men scattered to a thou sand points, in trenches, on battle fields and camps, along 300 miles of front and for a depth of 500 miles. And when are added housing and clothing, and the period is extended through the winter months of cold and frost, with the prospect that another million or two men may be headed this way before long with these elements one gets some idea of the magnitude of the supply problem for a million or more men. Here at the center of the' system, where the receipts are regulated and the distribution made, there was an opportunity of learning some of the details of how the system operates. Vast Amount of Food. In the food branch alone, it takes over 4,000,000 pounds of food every day to feed the army. This prodigi ous daily consumption of food em braces a million pounds of flour . baked into a million pounds of bread every day, 875,000 pounds of' fresh ' beef, 875,000 pounds of potatoes, 200,000 pounds of sugar and 125,000 pounds of tomatoes. The pepper and salt for a single day is 42,500 pounds. Army coffee is roasted at the rate of 70,000 potinds a day, and it takes 20,000 pounds of solidified alcohol ' to cook this coffee through the month. Beef Bulkiest Product. The beef is the bulkiest product used each day, and gccupies a daily ' space of 45,000 cubic feet, or about the .dimensions of a. business block, of solid meat. Flour comes next, .requiring 25,000 cubic feet of daily jpace. and potatoes about the same. These are only a few of the main items. But the list runs all through the many requirements of the over . 4?a army ration, with vast quantities in each case. Here are some of the other daily items: Bacon, 225,000 pounds; beans, . 75 10(Wf pounds i rice, 50,000 pounds; : onions. 250,000 pound; evapprated i fruit, 70,000 pounds' 4 jam, '70,000 pounds; milk, 62,500 pounds, vine gar, 40,000 pounds; lard, 40,000 - pounds; butter, 31,000 pounds; sirup, - 40,000 pounds. Must Deliver Daily. These, being included in the over- sea ration, everyone of the 1,000 000 men is entitled -to his .full : al- lowance and it' must go forward to .him, wherever he is. -.So, that besides the vast daily stock there is the ques tion of unfailing daily delivery, first by railways and camion trains, and then to the individual soldier. - Often on the field or in the trenches he is supplied from mar mites, or huge thermfcs bottles car- - rying hot food for eight pen, and , often, too, the delivery, in i. 'the trenches is by the Yukon pack. used in Alaska and by the Hudson, Bay voyageurs and Indians. Besides this 4,000,000 pounds of food moving forward dai,ly to the troops, each man carries with, him two days' emergency - ration, five pounds to the man, or n- addition al 5,000,000 pounds of food for an army of a million men. Of the emer gency ration, carried on the back, there is outstanding every day 2,000 000 pounds of corned beef and 2,000- 000 pounds of hardtack, 300,000 pounds of sugar, 52.500. pounds of coffee, 20,000 pounds of salt and 500,000 pounds of solidified alcohol for heating and cooking while on the march. Centralization Imperils Nation, Declares Reed 1 St. Louis, Sept. 22. United States Senator Reed, speaking last night before the Missouri Bar. as sociation, declared that the United States has taken greater steps towards centralization than have been taken by any nation which; has in the past been destroyed by cen tralization. " "Every step made toward centrali sation of power means a certain 'oss of liberty," said Mr. Reed. "I lo not hesitate to say that in the present crisis we have disregarded , absolutely the constitution of the .United States. We have' made long er strides toward centralization in two months than have many nations' that have been destroyed in years. But I believe that the genius", of thfr- American people will meet the sit uation and bring our government in good time back to her old ideals, out this will require the" patriotism-, and best efforts of the bar and bench of America." Germany's Desperate Strait Confessed bv Berlin Paper X Amsterdam, Sept. 22. AmericaV k . W - A answer to Austria-nungary s Teceni peace note and the speech of Pre mier Clemenceau of France on the same subject should, according to ,he Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, be iirtctrt nn hillhard and be COm- inunicated to the German people by the distribution of millions of pam phlets. v . "No German man or woman who knows the contents and significance of these declarations," the newt paper declares, "can doubt that peace is attainable only either through our victory or at the price pf our utter destruction." . Map Showing St. Mihiel Salient and Briey Coal and Iron Fields The territory regained by General Pershing's operations is represented by vertical shading. The cross-hatching at the upper right hand corner of the map marks the area of the rich coal and iron deposits of the Briey basin, now in German hands, but threatened by the American advance. Offensive operations toward Metz strike at one of the most important German bases in the west. The city and the twenty-eight encircling forts comprise what has been regarded as one of the most formidable fort resses in the world. Metz also is the center of important iron fields, which before the war supplied France and Germany with more than two-thirds of the ore used by their iron manufactories. Metz is on the Moselle 0!A miles east of the French border. The city lays astride the Moselle as well as on both sides of the Seille. Part of the city is on islands in the Moselle. To the east, north and northwest are the iron and coal fields of French and German Lorraine. Deprived of these fields Germany could not con duct the war another three months, it is asserted. The chief iron field of the Rhine district is that of Lorraine, includ ing the Bassin de Briey, (the center of which is the little village of Briey,) the greatest iron-producing region of the world. It is located Germany's possession of the major portion of this productive area fol lowed the signing of the treaty of Frankfort in 1871. Previous to the present war Germany obtained frpm the mines on her side of the fron tier 21,000,000 tons of her total an nual prduction of 28,000,000, while France got 15,000,000 out of a total production of 22,000,000. Since her occupation in 1914 of the mines on the French side of the frontier Germany has added to her mineral wealth the 15,000,000 tons annually obtained by the French, bringing her total production from Lorraine alone up to 42,000,000 tons a year. The only, practical road to this important region, military authori ties agree, is the valley of the Mo selle. At the head of the valley and barring the way lies Metz, ranking with Strassburg as. one of the two great bulwarks of the German south western frontier; Metz is a city of 60,000 population, its chief industries being the manufacturing of weapons, clothes, shoes and hats. As a fortress Metz has been im portant since the Roman era. Since mainly in Alsace-Lorraine and over- j that time it has never succumbed to laps into Belgium and Luxemburg, j frontal attack. Its present system It extends along the Franco-German j of fortifications includes 28 detached frontier for thirty-five miles, almost forts which encircle the city proper, up, to Pont-a-Mpusson..' . . , ,The , outer chain of defenses, built within the last two decades, and un doubtedly perfected since the out break of the present war, extend to Thionville on the north, and Gravelotte on the west. . West and southwest of Metz the course of the Moselle is lined with high, wooded hills. The German fortress also is protected by heights and woods northward. On the south, however, the terrain is more open with few hills and little wood. From the American lines south west of Metz the nearest forts are Forst Haeseler and de Sommy on the right bank of the Moselle and Fort Kronprinz on the left bank. Fort de Sommv is less than five miles from the French town of Ar- 1 naville, on the Franco-German bor- j der. The forts surrounding Metz j were similar to those at Liege, which j were notable for their disappearing I turrets. .German guns, however, j overcame these forts. I Metz also is an important point on the railway line supplying the German line eastward from Laon. The fall of Metz not only would probably seal the fate of the iron and coal fields, but, through the severance of railway lines, imperil the German line west to Laon and thence northward to the Belgian coast. All reports of a possible German retirement in the west have indicated that Metz would form one of the bastions of the German defense. ALLENBY'S TROOPS HEM IN MOSLEMS IN THE HOLY LAND (Continued From 1'age One.) wide front east of the Jerusalem Nabulus road. The first onslaught failed.' Fighting with constantly re inforced troops continued the night long with extreme violence. At dawn the attacking force was broken and the attack brought to a standstill on the Jalud Wady-Abs Uzorka line. "Meanwhile on the coastal sector the British opened a violent artillery bombardment aided by their naval gtyis. After two hours of artillery preparation there was desperate hand-to-hand fighting and the en emy succeeded in penetrating our po sitions between the coast and the Lydda-Tul Keram railway. Because of great numerical superiority of the enemy we moved our troops into positions at Tul Kerum, wliere fresli attacks are expected. "On the Jordan in the Wady Auja and Jerico districts we caught the enemy under an effective fire." Turks Taken by Surprise. British Forces in Palestine, Fri day, Sept. 22. While the Turkish army was occupied in strengthen ing its defensive positions. General Allenby's plans for the present Bri tish offensive were carefully ma turing. British airplanes prevented enemy craft from crossing the Bri tish lines to observe the prepara tions for the attack which took the Turks completely by surprise. The Ottoman right flank, though in formidable positions, was over whelmed. British troops went through the enemy's wires and cap lured his first trenches before he had time to lay down a barrage. On the remaining works some were most powerfully organized, but they were speedily overcome by the dash and gallantry of the British and Indian troops. In one sector an entire Turkish regiment, with its commanding of ficer, was captured, with insignifi cant loss. Within a few minutes af ter the offensive was launched the Turkish troops were streaming east ward in the direction of Tul Keran. The British air supremacy was so complete that not one German ma chine was able to show itself. Bri tish aviators harassed the enemy by a series of bombing raids, while camps, troops and transports were effectively machine-gunned by air planes. The German airdromes at the same time, were dominated by British machines which dropped bombs on any enemy plane that attempted to rise. The airmen also assisted the infantry to advance by means of smoke screens, and night fliers bombed the Turkish army head quarters effectively. Ik &t ' A. ' Soy F rom These Omana Firms Short Lines Accept Government Contract Without Guarantees Washington, Sept. 22. Represen tatives of short line railroads, re linquished frpm. federal control, in conference' with railroad administra tion officials, have agreed to gov ernment proposals for a contract under which small roads might re turn to federal management without guarantees of fixed earnings accord ed other roads, but with the privi lege of charging higher rates and with a fair division of joint rates. The contract proposed by the rail road administration provides that a short line operate under its own officers, keep its receipts and be responsible for all its oblieations. Rates might be raised to the new nationwide level without applica tion to the interstate commerce commission or state commissions, and joint rates would be "divided fairly" without reduction of the pro portion reeeived under private man agement. Director General McAdoo at any time might take over full opera tion" of a short line, giving it the same status as other roads now un der federal management. Czechs, Slavs and Poles Agree on Program of Arms Washington, Sept.. 22. Leaders of the Czecho-Slovaks, the jugo-SlaVs and the Poles, ,;at conference in Washington, have agreed upon' a program of aims '.of the oppressed peoples in Austria-Hungary which had been laid before President Wil son. Creation of a new centra! body of the central European erouns which nvill protect the interests of all of them was forecast. Participating in the meetings were Prof. T. E. 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