r than four days. A French
General of high position, lately visiting one such Bakery,
expressed his unbounded admiration at the system employed,
saying that in the French Army bread fifteen days old is
very usually met with.

(8) _Army Service Corps Labourers._--These men are specially
enlisted from stevedores, dock labourers, etc. Their work
consists, in the main, of unloading vessels, and shipping
supplies on to trains.

(9) _Remounts and Veterinary Department._--It would rejoice the
hearts of all lovers of dumb animals to visit these great
repositories of whole, sick and injured horses. The saving
in horse flesh represented by these carefully administered
camps is of the utmost value to the Army as a whole, for
although motor transport is playing so important a part,
horses are a necessity in many phases of Army work.

(10) _Military Police._--Under the Assistant Provost Marshal, a
military Base is controlled by a staff of picked men, who do
their work most admirably. Their duties are varied; they
have the oversight of the conduct of the men, and are most
particular in regard to the appearance of men in public. Woe
be to the man who is not properly dressed as he passes under
the lynx-eye of one of these military custodians of the
peace. Such supervision is not even altogether uncalled for
among the officers of the new Army; one has been much struck
with the slovenly, and at times grotesque, appearance of men
who have suddenly assumed the position of officers and
gentlemen. The somewhat apt epigram which is current to-day,
is not wholly unmerited, "Temporary officers are expected to
behave as temporary gentlemen."

(11) _Convalescent Camps._--On men leaving hospitals, prior to
their rejoining their Units at the Front, they are usually
placed in Convalescent Camps, or in what are called Base
Details. Here they are employed in various light duties
until such times as they are fit for more active service.

It was at a Base comprising a Garrison of such Units as I have mentioned
that I spent the greater part of my closing months of service in the
Army. I was not attached to any hospital, but had placed in my care the
greater part of what I may call the active men. The work was of the most
interesting description, and following as