Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — Clearing Up After War. [ARTICLE]

Clearing Up After War.

On the banks of the Thames, less than twenty miles from London, there is an American town of the mushroom kind such as you might find in a new California oil field. Its population consists of more than 200 white men and about 15# negroes. It covers twenty-five acres which nine months ago were fallow grass land. The business of the town is to receive, sort and store war material. There is a street of wooden huts, another of corrugated iron huts, huge iron store sheds a quarter of a mile long, office buildings, water supply and electric lights, the whole surrounded by a hedge, a few armed sentries and much mud. All day long the khaki-clad'negroes push and haul railway trucks full of war material. War material coming back from Russia is being stored at this camp, also the fittings of the dismantled hospitals which the American army established in England.