The Wanganui Herald (Published Daily.) SATURDAY, JANUARY 27. 1917. SUPPLIES FOR THE ALLIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15131, 27 January 1917, Page 4

The Wanganui Herald (Published Daily.) SATURDAY, JANUARY 27. 1917. SUPPLIES FOR THE ALLIES.

Despite the operations of German submarines, trade between the United States and the Allies shows a remarkable increase. American December papers to hand indicate that heavy shipments of war munitions, metals, and food supplies continue to be sent across -he Atlantic. On the first Saturday in December five big liners left New York for England with thousands of passengers and immense cargoes of all kinds of merchandise, from aeroplanes and ■ armoured motor trucks to cases of canned Salmon. And this was an almost daily occurrence. For the ten months ending November, American exporta showed an increase of nearly 16,000,000 dollars over those of the corresponding period of the previous year. Wheat exported totalled 125,790,671 bushels; corn 44,854,035 bushels; meat and dairy produce 220,934,678 dollars’ worth; mineral oils 2,164,609,292 gallons. Reports from New York for the week ending December 10 state:—“ Cartridges running into many hundreds of thousands of dollars in value were shipped out of the port for the Allies. Brass bars for conversion into parts of bullets and shells- were forwarded in large quantities, France alone on Friday taking 370,049 dollars worth, and England on the same day 1X0,065 dollars worth. Other articles, pretty well divided between England and France, included wheat, flour, refined copper, knit goods, alcohol, billets, ingots, etc. The week’s outward-bpjind commerce _of all kinds amounted to 63,043,799 dollars, compared with 62,749,841 dollars in the week before and 66,757,746 dollars in the week before that. In the corresponding week last year the exports amounted to 70,370,619 dollars, and 22,655,346 dollars in the same week of 1914. Total shipments from New York to date for the calendar year now amount to 2,715,450,203 dollars against 1,640,656,354 dollars in the corresponding period last year and 852,984,843 in 1914.” It is also interesting to note that Britain does not intend to -renew the shell contracts with the United States, which virtually all run out before June next, and most of them by the end of March. The chairman of the Imperial Mufaitions Board in Canada, in making this statement to the New York Times last month, explained that Britain would continue to purchase copper, brass, steel, and other raw materials from the United States, but she would not purchase any more of the finished shells. The New York Times adds that New. York bankers in close touch with American munitions manufacturers have known for some time that the British Government proposed to curtail purchases in the United States, and that the newly-established factories in Canada were equal to the task of supplying all the shells that were needed from abroad. Another proof of the remarkable way in which the Old Land has met the demand for requirements for the Western front ,is afforded by a Paris cable in the paper from which we quote, stating that the British Government in December eft. gaged to send immediately to France 10.000 freight cars taken from British railroad companies, and an additional 10.000 are to be sent during the first months of the year, with a certain number of locomotives. This is to be done, it is understood, because Great Britain’s military operations in France have been requiring the use of 30,000 French freight cars.