GREAT BRITAIN SENT 7,500,000 TROOPS TO WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN SENT 7,500,000 TROOPS TO WAR.

NEW YORK, August 3. Great Britain's' contribution to tlie success of the Allies was made public' here to-day by the British Bureau of Information. . Staggering figures that tell an eloquent story 6f sacrifice, heroic determination and accomplishment are revealed by the Bureau, ' 'which points ' out that Great Britain and her. colonies have raised .7,500,000 soldiers, of whom' 500,000, have been slain and. 2,000,000 wounded- or missing. England herself, it is said, ha 3 furnished 60 per cent, of the fighters, and suffered 76 per cerit.] of the casualties. It has been estimated, the Bureau says, that Britain has fought ou seventeen fronts during the past four years ' including Belgium, France, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Russia, "Palestine,* Mesopotamia, China, and North. East.. and' West Africa. . • It is stated that the expenditure of rifle ammunition per week is- now 65, times greater than the average weeklyexpenditure during , the ' first ten months of the struggle. Machine-gun output is thirty-nine times greater. The Ministry of 'Munitions now handles 50,000,000 articles a week, and m addition to more than ninety .arsenals/ Great Britain now has 5046 Government controlled factories., all working night and day on munitions anil supplies. ' The British Navy has trebled its tpersonnel and doubled the fighting armament since entering the conflict". It and the merchant marine has transported overseas 13,000,000 nien, . 2/1001000 horses and mules, 500,000 cannon, gun carriages and other vehicles, 25,000,000 tons of explosives, 51,000,000 tons of oil and fuel, and 130,000,000 tons ot food aim 'other stores. ? The ill-omened word "Kultur" comes- in for -a 1 savage analysis. Professor Von< Seydon, m the 'first frenzy of the war, said : "The Ger•nan s are the elect people of the earth. [They will accomplish S their destiny. | which is to rule the world and to guide all other nations for their common^happiness." '