Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-12-22 | Page 6 | Munitions

MUNITIONS By analyzing the speech of Lloyd George and reading between the lines it is possible to arrive at Soma inter esting conclusions Last May the English were manu factoring Only 'oOft h gh eiplosi e shells daily while Germany was tunf ing out 2o0 000 a day This disparity would hare ended the war quickly in Germany s favor but for the fact that France was turning out 100 QD0 or 150 000 shells a day and Russia a similar ? amount with the aid of Japan More f over the United States was supply & rag a certain though inconsiderable ft quantity of ammunition at that time Sr and during "May Italy entered the war Bj Since May Germany and Austria as well as the allies, have increased p- their output; but undoubtedly the great VgjK et increase j far has been in Great SP Bntam We. read in Lloyd George s fcgpeech -forj instance that dnnng the B-jjffenEiv8 lns-jSeptember lasting several elreets, the English shot away shells HESr.hieh they lad Jbeen husbanfiing for Kioar montht After the righting this HspiSppty vaseplaced. in -one month fcpich is t tay that the English, out Mrittt had been, increased fourfold The H&ffiiiSter of iuunitHms makes the illn B&iatjng rearark that the government Hg&i0pe3 to ba able to replace a similar MP amtfunt m a week which would? show Katj increase of sSsteenfolsV 4tentme RfflP output is France Italy J&pan and EjiJtnrEia. has been augmented consider HHfafily and the United States is sending Bgf. g, much larger amount of ammunition E$ abroad than it did last spring ' "VTheji we consider these figures rt is Bg sot difficult to understand why the Kj' allies lost the spring and summer cam paigna. Indeed it has been admitted E on all sides that the Austro German IT sneeesses in Bussia and Poland were ( due solely to Bussia s lack of ammu r mtion In the last grand battle says 1 Lloyd-George although there was a I tremendous accumulation of atnmnni tion the generals stated that with thnee the quantity of ammunition they would have achieved twenty times the result Since then there has been more than a threefold increase in the production of English ammunition but France Bussia and Italy have not been able to maintain a similar increase More over England is constantly tt ng a greater number of men in arous the aters of war and must furn sh shells for these new armies wh le r !en sh ing the depleted sto ks u Serb a Mod tenegro and Buss a At the same time England must- add to her o tput of guns Wh le the prolu ton of amm nition s probably adeq ate for the men now in the field new arm ea rc quire add t onal gins an (be en of Fugland must ow t rn th a ten tion to vast! ncreas ng th o tput of gi ns The numbe of g s apt ed by the Austro Gorman for es exec lb tl c n m ber captured b the t es In tl e re cent operat o s n e bia the Te to took dO gn s ut half f th se at least the He r , t e f o Austrian In I e ha rH a Loos battles the r ren h an II captured 0 g ni I t lo fl o s xtj of the own I g 1 ampa g s f dit w nt a I g the Rus a b atu el al o er an and A t a r e ana a d A str a h o k at I h It ss an g nil I I y h c f n t e fort Russia theref ba ft th heaviest lowiex j n a h I e ot ncl d n a g h g ns the a a I twe 1 0 0a I IX a I man h the ( erma na nl h u ng aga t the r e e