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Show WAR MUNITIONS EXPORT. Heavy Shipments to United Kingdom nnd France. Washington. In response to Senator Sena-tor Hitchcock's resolution for Information Informa-tion on shipments of war munitions from tho United States, Secretary Red-field Red-field submitted on Saturday a report giving data so far as available There aro 13,000 firms In tho country, ho said, that could export munitions nnd it had boen impossible to make a complete Investigation. Ho said shipments of ammunition slnco tho war wero chiefly to tho United Kingdom and France. For October Oc-tober munition exports to them totaled $1,104,741 worth of cartridges. $539,-3G0 $539,-3G0 worth of firearms, and $1,114 worth of gunpowder. Sinco tho European Euro-pean war began there is no record of shipments of war munitions to Germany, Ger-many, Russia, Belgium or Servia. |