MUNITIONS FOR RUSSIA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 804, 11 September 1915, Page 5

MUNITIONS FOR RUSSIA.

ACTIVITY AT VLADIVOSTOK. Tokio, Thursday. There is intense military activity at Vladivostok. The wharves are loaded with war materials from Japna, Europe, and America. Transportation of ordinary freight on the Siberian railway is limited to twenty or thirty tons daily. The rest of the cars are devoted to war supplies. The relations between the Russians and the Japanese grow daily more cordial. RUSSIA NOT EXHAUSTED. MUNITIONS CRISIS OVER. Paris, Thursday. In a message to the newspaper Le Matin, M. Cruppi, ex-Foreign Minister ofF ranee, Baya : "The Germans are fabricating when they depict Russia as exhausted and incapable of relaking the offensive. Certainly, her army has susained great losses, hut fresh soldiers are rising from the soil by millions. I saw at Odessa battalions of new formation drawn from a single class, which had furnished a contingent of 1,200,000 "The munitions crisis is over. Though the progress of the production of munitions is slow ; it is incessant, and daily grows in activity and method. The Russians are served by immenae forces, while the harvest this year is auperb."