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Show oo BRITISH ARMY WELL EQUIPPED England Replaces Lost Guns and Increases Quantity of Machine Guns. OTTAWA. April 12 The British! army in France is as well equipped to- ; day as when the German offensive in Picardy began, England having replaced re-placed all the lost guns and having in-oreased in-oreased the quantity of machine guns, according to Frederick George Kdla-way, Kdla-way, British parliamentary secretary ot the ministry of munitions. A Reut-j er s dispatch received here today from London quotes from a speech which Mr. Kellaway made last night at Bed-lord, Bed-lord, England "The tanks which the Germans captured cap-tured were being replaced bj ones ol superior model." the secretary asserted, as-serted, "and the ammunition con BUmed had more than been mad .- good. I while men were steadily being re i leased to fill the gaps occasioned through loss. In the air Britain continued con-tinued as strong if not stronger." I |