FOOD FOR TROOPS
Concentrated Nourishment (Special Australian Correspondent, N Z P A.) (Rec. 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 7. Scores of women have responded to the urgent call by toe Commonwealth Government for factory workers needed to prepare special concentrated food for Australian front-line troops in New Guinea. Concentrated food is packed in parcels about eight inches square. These parcels are dropped from planes to troops advancing over the Owen Stanley Range. Tea tablets, soup tablets, meat and vegetable extracts and dried fruit are included in each package and toe contents may be eaten in their concentrated form or converted into soups or stews by being heated with water. The delivery of rations in this form is reducing toe supply difficulties in toe mountains and has enabled much faster progress by the Australian forces than would have been possible had normal iron rations (bully beef and biscuits) had to be brought forward by toe native carriers.
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Southland Times, Issue 24869, 8 October 1942, Page 5
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155FOOD FOR TROOPS Southland Times, Issue 24869, 8 October 1942, Page 5
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