A recent number of the "Mriegeszeitung" gives a statement of the amount of war material produced in Germany during othe course of the active operations of 1914-18, The number of small arms of all kinds actually manufactured amounts to 10 million. Before the war had been more than five months in progress German arsenals were delivering 1,200 rifles a day, and later the monthly output reached 250,000 small arms. By the middle of 1916 Germany was turning out 2,300 machine-guns every month, in the spring of 1917 the number reached 7,000, while by the autumn of the same year the monthly production had reached 13,000.
The output of bombs reached its maximum in the winter of 1916: 1917, with nine million every month, and at the same time there were being delivered from the arsenals and factories 2,340,000,000 small-arm cartridges, 100,000,000 rounds of short-range a.nmunition (for trench mortars, ele.), nearly 1,000 tons of powdsi, and more than 3,000 tons of explosives.
By 1918 théte were 1,660 batteries of heavy artillery. For the field batteries there were provided each month, 1,500 new guns in 1916; 2,000 early in 1918; and later, 3,000. In 1917 replacements in mine-throwers amounted to 4,300 each month, While by the summer of 1918 the Allied Armies had 200,000 mechaniecally-propelled vehicles at their disposal on the western front alone, Germany, by reason of the shortage of rubber and other material, had been reduced to 40,000 only, in all theatres of war, Toxro, Aug. 13.—Part of. the American Asiatic Squadron, consisting of two destroyers and six torpedo-boats, will pay a visit to Nagasaki on October 27, afterwards proceeding to Yokohama.—Reuter.
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