Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — Codfish for Trench Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Codfish for Trench Soldiers.

The codfish army is no dream. It arrives in the trenches somewhere In France at the rate of 5,000,000 pounds a week. On its strength of “two breakfasts and one fish dinner” Canadian and British “Tommies” are kept up to their working mark. Canada herself 16 helping,to solve the food problem by having two fish days a week —Tuesdays and Fridays, notes, a correspondent With this great demand for fish the Nova Scotia fisherman suffers neither tog, nor rain, nor Ice, nor snow, nor darkness nor submarine to Interfere with his task of supplying the dominion and the empire with fish in quantities never paralleled in history.