Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1915 — Chocolate Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Chocolate Soldiers.

The soldier’s weakness for sweetmeats, to which Bernard Shaw called attention when he wrote “The Chocolate Soldier," has been abundantly, confirmed during the present war. The quantity of sweets consumed by cur army in France has been prodigious, while from Cairo come the news that the Australians have absolutely eaten the place out of chocolate. On the troopships which brought them, too, it was the same. Thus Captain Bean, the official correspondent with the force, writes: “Our canteen had five times the de- ■ mand for sweets and soft drinks that was expected and one-fifth the demand for beer.-—Westminster Gazette.

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