TRAVELLING LIGHT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 7

TRAVELLING LIGHT.

THE GERMAN EQUIPMENT. States the Sydney Sun: —One of the cable messages says that ‘‘in tin. 1 equipment of the German sokliei everything is sacrificed to lightness the cartridge bells pro of cotton, cartridges in sets of five are j ean intr, separate pockets, fastened by lapping stiches; when the belts a: emptied they are thrown away.” in this fact those who are fond of moralising may see analogies. Germany likes to travel light. So also (accord big to the stories which chilled am- blood in boyhood) do people who race in a sledge with the wolves of Russia in pursuit. They throw away their belts, boots, and mothers-in-law as the pursuit grows hotter, and even then the wolves sometimes overtake them. The German method with cartridges would be an. excellent one with soverigns for persons ol a spendthrift nature. How pleasant it would be to be adorned w it! a patchwork quilt with little pocket. 1 containing five sovereigns earn ; an as fast as the pocket was emptied num would throw it away. By t 1 time the last sovereign was gone • man would certainly travel vvin light. Ft must be the mania for lign equipment that causes German sol diers to travel without boots, and German motor cars to take the rnac without petrol. The efforts of tu Allies are being directed toward lightening Germany’s load still finther. The Australians and Rout’ Africans are taking those heavy coin nies off their hands; and when Bus sia, France, and England have finished she ought to find herself lig l ’’ er than she hoped to he in her wild est dreams. But Germany will neve travel with proper lightness and fre' dom while she carries the Hohenzoi lores on her back. They are tor grievous a burden for any country If they were put into a cotton pockef to bp discarded as their, emptinesfwas’ discovered, everybody would be happier.