Certainly he could not have moved the lager caravan without the consent and aid of the Berlin war office.

For all I know to the contrary he may have been financed in that competent quarter.

That same morning I had seen a field weather station, mounted on an automobile, standing in front of our lodging place just off the square.

It was going to the front to make and compile meteorological reports.

A general staff who provided weather offices on wheels and printing offices on wheels--this last for the setting up and striking off of small proclamations and orders--might very well have bethought themselves that the soldier in the field would be all the fitter for the job before him if stayed with the familiar malts of the Vaterland.