They often look upon trucks as another form of commissariat wagon which may be kept loaded for an indefinite period.
The Commissariat force for the division also declined to unload the wagons, saying it was uncertain whether the troops for whom the supplies were intended would remain at Metz or go further on.
The railway officials appealed to the local Commissariat force to unload the wagons so that they could be got out of the way.
The Commissariat wanted to convert them into depots, and the Artillery sought to change them into arsenals.
He requested the crown to grant the use of public lands and servants, and offered to supply the commissariat at a given price, and to sustain the entire risk or loss of his experiment.
The commissariat receipts were, however, the chief medium of exchange: they were acknowledgements of the delivery of goods for the use of the crown.
To prevent these abuses, the convict estimates were thenceforth to be prepared by the colonial secretary, the comptroller-general, and the commissariat officer, subject to the approval of the secretary of state.
Considerable profits were made by the more successful: the commissariat allowed 1s.
There was a Naga village once, where they lived on dead AND buried Commissariat mules.
He was not even good-looking; and I think he was in the Commissariat or Transport.
They are providing guns, litters, and commissariat camels, and the story goes that they mean to fight the Feringhis at Bahadurgarh.
By some extraordinary blunder of the commissariat the 32d had set forth that morning without breaking their fast.
The commissariatwas beneath contempt, and for months the British force was kept stationary, unable to close with Hyder, who, aided by French officers, flashed here and there at his pleasure.
I have given orders to the army commissariat to deliver rice instead, until we can supply something better.
They hold out hopes to us that in eight days the commissariat will be sufficiently in order to make proper distributions, but that seems a long way off.
The force took with them provisions for one day only, relying on the commissariat arrangements made on their behalf by Dr.
He soon attracted the attention of Lord Howe, who commanded the first division of the British army against the forts on Lake George and Lake Champlain, and was placed in the commissariat department.
To facilitate the business for which the commissariat was established, a sloop made weekly trips between the Point and New York, then the headquarters of the British army.
At the time of the occurrence the Americans had possession of Elizabethtown, and there was established there a commissariat of prisoners, under the superintendence of Major Adams.
The account of the commissariat is now complete to the end of the Dongola Expedition; but it may conveniently be carried forward with the railway construction.
And thus, although the purchase of foreign grain added to the expense, the beginning of the war found the commissariat of the Egyptian Army in a thoroughly efficient state.
In less than a week stores sufficient for three months were poured along the line, and the exhausting labours of the commissariat officers ended.
Supply and transport stand or fall together; history depends on both; and in order to explain the commissariat aspect of the River War, I must again both repeat and anticipate the account.
After the enemy had taken shelter under the protection of his gunboats at Westover, the Confederate commissariat attempted to reach the large amount of supplies held by the farmers along the James River.
Nearly all the vessels lying in the bay were Athenian; for the main body of the allies, and the commissariat ships, had been ordered to muster at Corcyra.
Then the crews settled down to their work, and the great armament swept on, high in heart and hope, to join the allied contingents, and commissariat fleet, now assembled at Corcyra.
The great Oriental phantoms, such as the Pharaohs and the Sargons, did, it is true, bring nations to war without much more care for the commissariat department than is given in the battles of the Kites and Daws.
We retired, the same night, through Condacia, where the commissariat were destroying quantities of stores that they were unable to carry off.
Armies fought, as a rule, only in the five summer months; it was difficult enough to victual them for even that time; and lack ofcommissariat or transport crippled all the invasions of Scotland.
The transport broke down; the commissariat was most imperfect; and Sir George Lawson of Cumberland was unable to supply the army with sufficient beer.
This morning I went round to the Commissariat of Labour, to see Schmidt, the Commissar.
After talking for some time we went round the corner to the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, where we found Chicherin who, I thought, had aged a good deal and was (though this was perhaps his manner) less cordial than Karakhan.
Litvinov had given me a letter to Karakhan of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, asking him to help me in getting a room.
I have seen scores of these pamphlets on forestry, potatoes, turf, rotation of crops, and so on, besides the agricultural journals issued by the Commissariat and sent in large quantities to the villages.
Some of the cavalry were sent down to the valley, as it was clear that with all the efforts the commissariat could make, sufficient quantities of forage could not be collected for their support during the winter.
The preparations for the concentration of these columns occupied considerable time, as India had been for some time in a state of profound peace, and the commissariat and transport service had to be entirely organised.
Camping-grounds were prepared, commissariat stores and ammunition forwarded to the front, wood cut and stacked for fuel, and every preparation made, so that there might be no delay or hitch at the critical moment.
But to get the army in motion and prepare the commissariat is a gigantic undertaking, and will require weeks yet.
Their commissariat was low, and he and Mulha had ridden out to see what could be found.
He had slain certain Saracens, contented himself with his own plunder, and never dunned the commissariat for arrears of pay.
It contains the barracks and the commissariat stores, the Protestant church, orphanage, Masonic lodge, post-office and numerous private dwellings.
It did not affect the garrison in the least; for their commissariat never failed.
I left the town by the Balan gate, stepped off the high road, which was blocked with transport and Commissariat waggons, and took my way through the fields.
Pratt returned, bringing with him two gentlemen, Mr. Olive and Mr. Wombwell, who were to take charge of the commissariat and store department.
Then upon getting into our new quarters we had to re-establish our culinary and commissariat departments, on which everything depended, as well as to re-organise the system of Hospital management, and put the whole into working order.
Further, he was well able in the councils of the Republic to defend the needs of his particular Commissariat against those of all others.
There is a State Committee presided over by an extraordinary optimist called Krzhizhanovsky, entrusted by the Supreme Council of Public Economy and Commissariat of Agriculture with the working out of a general plan.
In the first place Trotsky carried with him into the Commissariat of Transport the same ferocious energy that he has shown in the Commissariat of War, together with the prestige that he had gained there.
Rostopchin admitted that the commissariat arrangements of the Soviet and its Executive Committee were very bad.
