SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION AND EQUIPMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 August 1915, Page 5

SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION AND EQUIPMENT

BELGIAN GUARDS.' RIFLES REQUISITIONED. (Rec. Aug. 12, 9.5 a.m.). AMSTERDAM, Aug. 11. Twice lately all the ammunition for the guards on duty in Belgium on the frontier has been requisitioned for fighting at the front. Rifles have been taken and older patterns substituted. Many wounded are now acting as .guards. ARMIES I _ TWO-THIRDS STILL IN THE WEST. MANY RESERVES STILL LEFT. EONippN -.Aug. 10. Colonel Repingtoh 'estimates that at the end of June two-thirds of the German army was still in the west. He believes that a million and a quarter, supplemented by three-quarters of a million Austrians, are operating in the east, and adds that we must not natter ourselves that the German reserves are being used up. The garrisons and depots of the interior are still full of recruits, though of inferior qiiality. The Germans' adva.rj.ee in the east was hotly pressed, but it was unable to break the r.rder of the Russian retreat. THE SAARBRUCK RAID FOUR FRENCH AEROPLANES. MISSING. (Official.) PARTS. August 11, . There have been ai'tillery" ' actions only at Artois, in . the Aisne, and the Argonne. Four of our aircraft which participated in the. Saaxbruck raid have not returned- One is reported to have landed in Switzerland.. CARPENTTER INJURED. (Rec. Aug. 12. 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 11. Cajpentier, the boxer, was injured owing to stoppage of the engine .compelling the aeroplane to descend suddenly. His ankle was bi-oken and hjs eyebrow bone fractured.