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 34 THE WINTER TKOUBLEJi. CHAPTER V. THE WAY IN WHICH FRANCE AND ENGLAND MIN ISTERED TO THEIR ARMIES IN THE EAST. CHAP. Even for the strongly - manned and higlily- ^- trained Intendance of the French, but yet more Conditions go Qf couise for the small Commissariat body under winch the supply which England had found means to collect, the of the Allied » armies pro- ^^sk of Supplying Frcnch and Engiisli troops on ceeded. rr ^ o o i. the Chersonese was one not only great in mere bulk, but exacted under difficult and shifting conditions, — conditions which, besides being new to begin with, were from time to time displaced — and that somewhat rapidly — by conditions newer still. To say nothing of our English stepping-stone — Malta — the Allied armies — sent out at first Tiie phases with a quasi-diplomatic intent — were estab- ern ctm^^ " lislicd, whcu the War opened, on the territories thefr"bear. of an ally — the shores of the Dardanelles, the question and the Bosphorus — without there confronting .•,uppj. ^^^ enemy. Next, having been moved to Bulgaria (where an enemy lay within reach)