CHRISTMAS DINNER
FOR THE EIGHTH ARMY BIG PROBLEM OF TRANSPORT AND TIMING. SEASONABLE FARE STREAMING OVER DESERT ROADS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. “The Eighth Army’s Father Christmas is Major John Prentice, who is working with the British Canteen Service to give the Army its Christmas dinner,” says the “Daily Mail’s” Cairo correspondent. “It is really a tough proposition this year,” said Major Prentice. “Maybe it is humanly impossible to deliver turkeys, chicken and pork to the most advanced troops, who are moving swiftly, but they will get their Christmas dinner as early as possible. I have to distribute .35.000 lbs. of turkey, 16.000 lbs. of ducks, geese and chickens, and 30.000 lbs. of pork, but this good fare does hot keep, and so it becomes a problem of timing. Thousands of turkeys have gone forward by sea and train. Other fare, including Christmas puddings and cakes, is streaming by road far into Tripolitania.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1942, Page 2
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161CHRISTMAS DINNER Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1942, Page 2
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