Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — ARMY FOOD SOLD BY U. S. [ARTICLE]

ARMY FOOD SOLD BY U. S.

Roumanla, Poland and Czecho-Slovaka Take Large Quantities of Supplies. Washington, May 15. —Sales of surplus subsistence supplies held by the army overseas have totaled $50,000,000, the war department announced, the American relief commission taking goods valued at $10,000,000, the Czecho-Slovak government $16,000,000, Roumanla, $14,000,000, and Poland $10,000,000. Announcement also was made that the department would sell by July 1, all the horses and mules now with the army In France, and hiat negotiations Were under way for the sale of oil and gasoline storage tanks and distributing stations, with the railroad. tank cars and tank trucks.