ENEMY ABANDONS ENORMOUS STORES OF MATERIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 7

ENEMY ABANDONS ENORMOUS STORES OF MATERIAL.

URGENT APPEAL FOR INCREASE IN PRODUCTION.

OUTPUT GREATLY REDUCED BY ALLIED AIR RAIDS. United Service. LONDON, Ann. 8. . Mr. Raymond Carroll, correspondent for the United Press Association on the American front, says:—The enemy left rolls of crepe paper, which have taken the place of cloth bandages for wounds. The remains of some burned harness showed that it was made of a composition of paper and hemp. Many abandoned motor-cars were fitted with iron tyres. The names from the burning ammunition dumps destroyed by the Germans were so bright that it was almost possible to read a newspaper by tbem. The whole horizon at night was a succession of gigantic red patches, with occasional roars of exploding ammunition. BERNE. Aub. 8. All the munition factories in Austria and Germany have received urgent appeals from the. military authorities to increase production of war material at all costs, in order to replace the enormous losses of guns and ammunition sustained in the recent unfortunate offensives in Italy and Franco. A telegram from Zurich states that the output of war material in the Rhine provinces has been greatly reduced owing to the Allies' air raids destroying factories.