The Archive · 1916

Prodigious Development of Munitions Output

The Minister for War, General

Polivanoff, in an interview admits the tragic lack of munitions in 1915, but the crisis hae been ended by immense and inflexible measures which have revolutionized Russia's national industrial activity. The development of the output of munitions has been prodigious.

General Polivanoff also stated that there was permanent reserve of million and o half recruits and that every man sent to the front was completely trained. "Germany may invent machines but her downfall is inevitable. The Allies constantly increase and behind them are the resources of the universe, while behind Germany there is only exhaustion and shakiness.""

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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