HOW BRITAIN HELPED THE AMERICAN ARMY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 271, 12 August 1919, Page 10

HOW BRITAIN HELPED THE AMERICAN ARMY

GENERAL BIDDLE'S GRATITUDE

Speaking at the American Luncheon Club in London in May last, where he was the principal guest, Major-General Biddle, of the United States Army, said American activities in Great Britain in connection with the war wero drawing to a close, and tho Americans were going or would shortly be gone. Thero wero now fewer thaii 1000 American soldiers employed in London. Out of the 2,000,000 soldiers who went from America to. Franco, over 1,000,000 passed through England, sometimes at tho rate of 200,009 a month.

It was wonderful how Britain, although supplying so much io her own forces, was able to supply them with so much— everything from white mice and guinea pigs to complete ambulance trains and big guns. Goods to a value of over a billion dollars (0:200,000,000) were ordered hero when peace came. For example, a 500-milc telegraphic line and _a cable wero laid connecting tho base in England with Headquarters in Franco at a cost of .1)700,090.

The Quartermaster's Department bought over .CM),000,(X)0 worth of goods. The Orders Department gave _ orders amounting to .£50,000,000, including 100,000.000 rounds of rifle ammunition. In all their dealings with the British Government they had boon heated liberally, openly, and fairly.