MUNITIONS OF WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 2

MUNITIONS OF WAR.

_ » . ..— ENORMOUS SUPPLIES LEAVE - AMERICA. " Writing on March 31, the San Francisco correspondent of the Auckland Star said: Enormous quantities of war supplies are leaving tne United States to assist j the Allies in the European war. During one week no less than twelve large steamers were being rushed in New Jfork in the loading of iood supplies, animunition, guns, motor trucks, and other material for the use of the Allies -in the war. The French steamer Malte left New York with a 12,000-ton cargo of war supplies, while another French vessel, La Gascogne, carried away some two thousand horses ..for service in France. The end of that specific weeK saw a scene of extraordinary activity, for no less than one hundred thousand tons of supplies, guns, ammunition, automobiles, provisions, and hospital supplies left New York inside twelve hours in the holds of seven steamers bound for ports in Northern and Southern Europe. The Adriatic, of the White •Star Line, carried 18,000 tons, the largest single shipment of provisions ever stowed on one steamer. Her promenade decks were lined with sixty big auto trucks. . They were later unloaded at Liverpool, and reshipped to France immediately. In build these cars were similar to those taken from Sydney by the Australian Expeditionary Imperial Force for service in Egypt. On. the Cunard liner Orduna's forward* deck were lashed two 14-inch guns, measuring 53ft long and 60in wide at the breech. In her hold were other pieces of ordnance, all part of the 10,000,000 dollar contract obtained by Charles M. Schwab, the American "Steel King," of Pittsburg and New York. The OrdimoI sailed to Halifax to take aboard 750 Canadian reservists. The American liner St. Louis, also for Livernooi. parried TirovisioTi* .ami a

The American liner St. Louis, also for Liverpool, carried provisions and a large quantity of hospital supplies and mail; the French steamer llocliambeau had 4000 tons of hospital supplies; the Norwegian-American liner Bergerifjord carried provisions, hospital supplies, and ten American nurses going to" assist in the work of the European Red Cross. The Italian steamer Euro-pa sailed for Genoa with 400 horses for the Italian Government, and close on midnight the steamer Kanawah left for the same port with lljOO horses. The German population of the Eastern States have made frantic efforts to persuade the United States Government to prevent war supplies being manufactured in America and exported to the war zone of the Allies, and when this enormous week's shipment left the Teuton* were maddened almost beyond frenzy in attempts to stir up trouble between America and England. British warships continue to patrol the Atlantic, and all thesis immense supplies were carefully guarded against the attack of any isolated cruiser of the Kaiser bent on a raiding expedition in the Atlantic waters.