Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-18 | Page 10 | French Trying to Place Shell Order

FRENCH TRYING TO PLACE SHELL ORDER ?! Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 17. Agents of 1; the French government have been ( trying for several days to place an m . order here for 9,000,000 hand gren- ' ades, but It was said by steel men 1 , today that thoy have met with little . success. Only the shells were wanted i- as they were to be loaded in France, i but manufacturers who have novoi made that sort of thing did not care i to experiment. j f More -foreign agents are now in the ' I Pittsburg district trying to buy steel 1 products than at any previous time, l f They include men who are buying ma- J" -3 terials for Australia, tho Belgian Con- ' S go and the Union of South Africa, j Shipments to China have been unu- h sually large the last few weeks. This i I export business is not confined to r 1 war materials, although munitions I. I constitute a considerable proportion, p, 1