COTTON ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 April 1918, Page 3

COTTON ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

» —■ A. twelve-inch gun disnoses of half a bale of cotton with every shot. A machine-gun in operation will use up a bale in three minutes. In a naval battle, like the one off Jutland, from five to six thousand pounds a minutes are consumed by each active warship. ■ It takes more t£an twenty thousand bales a year to provide absorbent ooi>ton to staunch and bind the wounds of the injured. ■' > _ The change of apparel for all the troops now engaged in the war represents more than half a million bales One hundred thousand bales will be i-equired to equip the proposed aeroplane fleet, if cotton, as may be necessary, supplants linen for the wings , The United) States of America is nW turning nearly a million bales a year into explosives alone.