MOST CHEERING PORTENT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15133, 30 January 1917, Page 5

MOST CHEERING PORTENT.

MUNITIONS AND RAILWAYS. LONDON, January 18. Lord Northcliffe, in a speech in London, and that when he saw the Battle of the Marne he was impressed by the lack of shells, guns, and machine-guns. On the occasion of 4us most recent visit to the front he was principally impressed by the extent of the mud, biff behind the mud area was an accumulation sf artillery and munitions that was of most cheering jJbrtent, whilst "the railway preparations were proceeding at tue rate of miles daily.