SHIPPING THE VITAL NEED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11448, 30 January 1918, Page 5

SHIPPING THE VITAL NEED.

AMERICANS USING ANGLO-FRENCH GUNS. TO EASE TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES A BIG ARMY READY. i Washington, Jan. 28. Mr Baker said tint shipping was the crux of the whole situation. The United States army was using Anglo-French guns because it was decided that thus more shipping would bo available for transport ot American troops. The Allies had bought guns in France where the factories -were bigger than needed for French requirements. America in January purchased 020 seventy lives from France. By December America would bo manufacturing •4Ti seventylives monthly, whereas Britain in'three years had ordered ordnance and shells from America totalling BIOS million dollars, the United States shell contracts for seven months exceed billion dollanrs. Mr B*ker added that sixty million shells had been ordered for the Army abroad. He predicted tho early entrance of tho Americans into active lighting. It is estimated that the thirty-two camps mentioned by Mr Baker represent 5)00.000 men.