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Show I $2,000,000 WORTH OF MUNITIONS FRON U, S, NOW POUR INTO EUROPE Off Washington, Feb; "". American mado munitions now pouring In to Europo at tho ,rato f nearly $2.-000,000 $2.-000,000 worth dally, Ith figures swelling rapidly nB induction increases. in-creases. For n. long tlmo. after war began shipments wero ncgllgiblo and not until tho mlddlo of 1915 did the millions of dollars worth of war mn-terla's mn-terla's contracted for begin to move In considerable quantities. Estimates mado at tho department of commcrco today to total munition shipments sinco Europo began to purchase for tho present war, closo to a quarter of a billion dollars. At tho rato shipments aro going now, tho noxt four months would Bee this total, doubled oven If production remained re-mained at a standstill, but production produc-tion Is declare to bo growing fastor now than nt any tlmo since American Ameri-can manufacturers began conversion of their plants into munitions factories. fac-tories. A great part of tho munitions output out-put has been in tho form of high exploslvo shells, moro than $100,000,-000 $100,000,-000 worth of which havo left American Ameri-can shores. Powder comes noxt with shipments estimated nt nearly $100,000,000 and small cartridges nre third, with $30,000,000. Firearms, including in-cluding ordlnanco exports, aro put at less than $20,000,000 with small Increases In-creases shown. Tho heaviest month's firearms shipments was In January, 1915, when more than $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 worth went to Europo. |
