STOP PRESS ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 16033, 9 February 1916, Page 8

STOP PRESS ITEMS.

tAIT E WAR NEWS. '' n (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) a tui t . ~ LONDON, Februarv 8. •- A remf: k k b story is told of how Russia recovered from the munitions crisis of 1915 by M. Pohvanoft, Minister of War, who said that the situation in December, 1914, was extremely harassing, hut in Juno, 1915, tiic crisis was tragic. The Russian army was forced to retreat owing solely to a lack of shells. This position was the more regrettable because everythin" then was favorable to Russia winning, but the lack of munitions paralysed us and forced us slowly to retreat in order to gain time and to prepare. ' To-dav the munitions crisis no longer exists, and it is only a sinister memory The first results of our labors were evident in September. 1915. when mir batteries could make themselves felt. Since then there has been an absolute transformation in our industrial activity. With our national production and the fact that the enormous markets abroad can be dispensed with, we can look to the future with confidence. All grave gaps are now filled, the morale of the troops is excellent, and, thanks to the recent mobilisation of great masses of men and the doubling of the permanent depots, we have a permanent reserve of a million and a-half of young recruits. We are thus able to feed the various units without sending them to the front insufficiently trained. It is a matter of capital importance to maintain the nulls complete, and this has now been secured. In a word, as the war is prolonged so the allied forces will increase and those of their enemies decrease. The Germans may invent new apparatus and war machines, but such expedients cannot modify their inevitable fate. SAN FRANCISCO, February 8. The German Consul, General Bop.p, has been indicted for participation in a conspiracy plot to originate a military expedition against Canada, and also to blow; pp munition plants., " '■