EATEN OUT OF CHOCOLATE.
Cairo is already running out of chocolate—that is, sticks of. hard chocolate such as men buy for a snatch meal (says the official recorder with the force.) Australians are tremendous fellows for lollies. No army or navy in this world hankers after sweetmeats to anything like the extent the Australian soldiers and sailors do. On the troopship our canteen had five times the demand for sweets and soft drinks that was expected and one-fifth the demand for beer. ITlic biggest confectioners in Cairo told me that they had no more stick chocolate, and did not expect to be able, to get any till after the "war. France is sending no more. The main supply comes from Switzerland, and that is now difficult. That is only one curious way in which, the inrush of Australians is disturbing the equilibrium of this city of the ages.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 6
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148EATEN OUT OF CHOCOLATE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 6
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