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Show oo 3 BRITISH ARMY WELL EQUIPPED. j OTTAWA. April 12 The British, I army in France is as well equipped to-1 day as when the German offensive in J Picardy began. England having replae- 1 ed all the lost guns and having increased in-creased the quantity of machine guns, i according to Frederick George Ke.ll-I away, British parliamentary secretary I of the ministry of munitions. A Reu- j ter's dispatch, received here today j from London, quotes from a speech which Mr. Kellaway made last night at Bedford, England: "The tanks which the Germans cap- Itured were being replaced by ones of superior model," the secretary asserted assert-ed and the ammunition consumed had more than beep made good, whjle men were steadily being released to fill the gaps occasioned through loss of man power, fn the air Britain continued contin-ued as strong if not strongor, he said. ' |