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Show uu DYESTUFFS CHANGED A GOVERNMENT Military men of no other nation understood un-derstood so fully a the Germans, the potential use of tho incredibly destructive de-structive explosives which aro made Trom the samo product as dyestuffs coal-tar. Even after the Battle of the Marno, when the French and "British in their trenches were pitting their shrapnel shells against the "H. E." German shells, General Sir John French could not persuade the British War Office that "high explosive" was probably the decisive element in tho war. Defeated in the War Office; he turned to Lord Northcliffe, who sent Colonel Ropington, tho military expert Of his London Times, to tho front to see the proof of General French's contention. con-tention. The result was the series of articles in the Times that made. Mr. Lloyd-George Minister of Munitions and set all the available works In Great Britain and the United States enlarging in order to increase their production of these high explosives. |