Army Wastage The scandal and problem of army food-wastage continues
to be very serious in country-districts, where woods and hedgerows are convenient dumping-places for all kinds of unwanted rations. The following examples, taken from my own village, defy comment. One unit, leaving for another district, leaves two sack i of loaves by the roadside; in the garbage left by another is found a piece of beef weighing several pounds; a local pig-keeper, collecting army swill. discovers in one day's collection half a dozen sizable lumps of suet each complete with kidney. Finally, during severe frost, when id roads made driving difficult, loaves were laid down under the wheels of lorries so that better grip ._ould.be obtained. Yet the answer to any question about the quality of army food is always the same—good food, ruined by bad organisation and cooking. And the postscript to it all is the old story of continued rabbit-poaching and of chickens stolen by the dozen.
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