BRITISH MUNITIONS.
SUPPLY MAINTAINED. ALL LOSSES MADE GOOD. Router. LONDON, April 12. In the House of Commons; Mr. F. 0. Kellaway, ,Under-Sccrotary to the Munilions Department, outlined progress in the production of munitions. Ho stated >hat the increase- in the first two months of 1918, compared with last year, amounted in light guns to 30 per cent.; medium guns, 67 pet cent, ; heavy guns, 38 per cent.; machine-guns, 96 per cent.; shells, 83 per cent.; tanks, 39 per/cent; aeroplanes, 223 per cent. The average weekly production of aeroplanes in .1918 equalled the average production for two months of 1915, while one week's, production of machine-guns equalled five months in H)ls. Over 100,000 men were released for ,the army in 1917.' The army was as well equipped to-day fts when the German offensive began. All the guns lost had been replaced, and we wfiro.now actually stronger in machineguns than at tho beginning of the battle, and nearly as strong, if not stronger, in tanks. Those lost have been replaced by tanks of a superior model.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16824, 15 April 1918, Page 6
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