UNFORESEEN REQUIREMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 5

UNFORESEEN REQUIREMENTS.

URGENCY OF ACCELERATED PRO-

DUCTION

(Received March 18', 9 p.m.)

London, March 18

Mr Balfour, Sir George Askwith, Sir Francis Hopwood, Sir George Gibb and other officials representing the Admiralty, the Wstr Office, and the Board of Trade attended the conference.

Mr Lloyd George said that every country engaged in the war had found the expenditure on war material in excess of any anticipations. The General Staff of France had met the difficulty by voluntarily organising, the whole industries of the country. We had an additional difficulty in having to the personnel of the Army tenfold. The duration of the war and even the Allies' success depended upon our increasing and accelerating the output of munitions. Preparatory to the last week's fighting there was the most tremendous concentration of artillery witnessed at any point during the war. This not merely insured our success, but saved the lives of the British soldiers.