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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 25 September 1915, Page 5

However the exact facts may be, the Austro-Gormans are convinced that Britain and France arc partly dependent upon the. United States for their supplies of munitions and the material necessary for military purposes. This us their most bitter grievance against J America. The Crown-Prince, of BavarI ia, was:reported to have said that fifty per cent, of the shells used by the French wore manufactured in Amorim*. | The French Government officially defined that they had bought any shells /at al> from America, and the denial j was repeated in the Now York Evening f Post, hut this produced no appreciable effect upon the mind of the Teutons. Great excitement was created by an advertisement in the American Machinist, describing a new machine for producing a kind of high explosive shell. This shall, the paper went on to say, tended to break into fragments, (musing incurabe wounds which could only end in an agonising death. This advertisement was reproduced first in Ger-man-American newspapers, within th<* States, and then in Berlin, with vehement denunciations.