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Show APPRECIATES THE NEED OMiraiS PARIS, April 6, 7:HO p. m. (delayed). Louis Loucheur, undersecretary of munitions, pointed out today the importance im-portance of America 's entrance into tbe war, adding, as it did, so largely to the material resources of the allies as to give them u decisive superiority over Germany. "As an official in charge of munitions," muni-tions," he said, "t fully appreciate the statement in President Wilson 's message mes-sage that the country's material resources re-sources must bo organized and mobilized. War is largely a question of material. It is no. longer a question of valor of men; but you must put into the hands of these men an overwhelming material superiority. v 'Ouo of the chief lessons of the war is that the more we achieve in producing produc-ing materials the more we must continue to achieve and intensify the achievement achieve-ment until overwhelming superiority is secured. "During the last fifteen months we have made a strenuous and successful effort in the production of war materials, ma-terials, the American supply of steel proving one of the chief helps toward this result." |