WHY FRANCE AVOIDED WAR.
GUNS, BUT NO AMMUNITION. [United Press iAssooiation.] [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Paris, July 11. Senator Aimaud, speaking at Raincy revealed the reason why France had •voided war with Germany in 1905. After the Kaiser's surprise visit to Tangier, M. Delcasse proposed that the Cabinet should send the fleet to Tangier, but M. Berteaux, Minister for War, replied that there were only sis hundred rounds of ammunition per gun, which would be exhausted in ten day*. M. Delcasse resigned, and Mr Bertreaux a few days later demanded 1400 million francs for the increase o artillery in order to strengthen the frontier defences.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 69, 13 July 1914, Page 5
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