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Show Ammunition Used in War. How much ammunition does a modern mod-ern army use? We shall not know until after the war what the German and the allied forces have been expending; ex-pending; but we know what the Germans Ger-mans used in 1870-71. The total for rifles was 30,000,000 cartridges, for field artillery 362,000 rounds. It is worth noting that battles are muci less costly in ammunition than sieges. The siege of Strassburg alone cost, weight for weight, three times the amount of ammunition used in all the decisive battles and actions throughout through-out the whole war. Of course these figures are a mere bagatelle com-gle, com-gle, with its millions of soldiers and its quick-firing guns and its week-long battles. Manchester Guardian. |