born in the Burgos Province of Spain, and one time organiser of the Food Workers’ Industrial Union in New York. Fred Lutz, at one time Commissar of the Lincoln Battalion in the early Jarama days is Com- missar. Lieutenant Conrad Kaye, former Chief of the Intendencia now serves in the same excellent way in another capacity.

The Kitchen

Lieutenant Wall<er who is responsible for catering in the XV Brigade is an old soldier with a gift for evolving supplies out of apparently thin air. And in Spain that is something to boast about. Lieut. Wtalker made such a success of his job in the British Battalion that he was promoted to do it for the Brigade. Always cheerily exploring some new avenue he follows a trail to its end— and the end always is some surprise va- riation and supplementation of Brigade rations.

Sergeant Harold Aubrey is in charge of the Brigade cooks. His re- miniscences go back to the first days when cooking was done over open fires at Jarama, and artillery and aircraft often added shrapnel to the ingredients. Aubrey doesn’t hold with the popular theory that cooks have an easy life. At Brunete, he will recall, a food—‘wagon was bombed and some of its occupants killed. Sometimes mules had to be used whe- re wagons could not travel; sixteen mules were killed one day. There were some of the kitchen staff with each mule. “Is it a soft life?” que- ries Aubrey.

The Auto-Park

Lieutenant Lou Secundy and his staff have had to encounterunusua- lly accentuated difficulties since they took over the Auto-Park in the summer of 1937. They were scarcely a week on the job when they had to transport the Brigade on a trip of record length, in trucks of record unreliability. Transport was one of the most acute problems throughout the Aragon offensive. Secundy considers it the luckiest break in his life that the Brigade by capturing Quinto and Belchite added‘ some trucks and tools to its outfit. In those days mechanics and chofers Worked on an average a twenty—hour day. The roads of Spain are hard on any transport. An additional problem is spare parts. Some XV Brigade mechanics have made ingenious repairs, patching motors with parts of different makes, building trucks out of parts of a dozen different models.

Water, food or munitions to the line, supplies to the depots, stores from various parts —— these are just a few of the Auto—Park activities. Now and then a driver is off the list. His bombed or machine-gunned

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