ENGLISH NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 5

ENGLISH NEWS.

SUPPLIES OF MUNITIONS

STRONG POSITION OF BRITAIN

AND FRANCE,

New York, April 16.

A representative jaf the Pierpont Morgan firm, after a visit to Britain,

declares that the orders for immense supplies of munitions given to C'.nited •States firms early in the war will not be continued, because England and France are now manufacturing on such a scale as to be independent of the United States. He adds that the European countries themselves will do the reconstruction work after the war, converting the munition factories for

that purpose