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THE predx "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is alrictly copyright entions Ordinance, 1836 Such now

under the provisions of the Telecommaal bears the indication UP I received in the United Press Associations, hor arrangement, or in part without previous

Hongkong on the date of pubueation by serve all rights and forbid republication,

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ECENTLY Mr. Lloyd. George told the country what steps

he took to speed up our war effort when he became Prime

he

The

sions.

Lesson

front to months of 1916.

of

1914-1918

lishment of heavy artillery, was that it made it worth while new 3in. 20cvt. anti-aircraft Minister twenty-three years which reflected the influence of to instal, new machinery on a guns to protect the whole of the ago. But he did not recall these discussions at Boulogne. larger scale and so hasten the front. A few weeks later the that some of his most Instead of "siege artillery" dates at which large deliveries Home Defence Command sub- Maximum Food Production notable contributions to our being moved as hitherto from could be made in the critical mitted a similar demand for anti-aircraft guns for London success in the war were one part of the WITH five months of the war

and vital points in this country. made before became another, he asked that cach behind us we may feel some

division and army corps should

Finally, in the early autumn confidence that measures have Prime Minister. In parti- have its own establishment. He been taken in good time to cular, his work in speeding therefore asked for one 60 pdr.: FOR nearly 12 months the Cabinet decided to arm all British merchant ships and re- food from up munitions had already and one 6in. howitzer battery munition programme was the the Admiralty gun-making cap the Lloyd George quested the Ministry to allot to produce more Britain's own soil. The Minister produced great results by per division, and two batteries for Agriculture has already re-.

of either. 8in, or 9.2in. howitzers subject of strong, criticism, in parted that the results of the December, 1916.

ener told the Cabinet that it great strain upon the plant cap- These demands put a very During the first nine months for every corps of three, divi- the Government. Lord Kitch- acity for 10,000 guns, Government scheme for plough-

would never be possible to train. acity that had been organised ing up 2,000,000 acres of rough of the war, the British Army

This programme was to be artillery officers to handle so by the Ministry. or worn-out grassland before were slow to realise the part

But in spite next summer had been "inspir- that would be played by heavy carried out as soon as possible vast an equipment...

Mr. McKenna protested that were almost completely, met- in of difficulties, these demands ing." In the last war it took artillery in trench warfare. In and during the next winter four years to complete an equal the curly months very few con- every effort should be made to it imposed an undue strain on 1917. task, In this case the im-tracts were placed-except for double this establishment by our finances and in particular But the pressure did not cease: portance of the farm was fore-field guns and howitzers, which the spring of 1916 "if the war that dollars would not be avail- even with the great effort of that seen, and the plan to restore the were ordered in sufficient num- should, continue so long."

able to pay for the necessary year. Early in 1918 the muni Finally, he asked that this raw materials, and nitro-cellu- tion programme of the United fertility of asture in the springbers to keep pace with the was set going before the war. growth of the New Kitchener establishment should be provid- lose from America.

ed on the basis of 50 divisions

States, which had entered the Even when it is carried out Armies,

The Board of Trade objected war in April, 1917, was falling. much more will remain to be

that it was diverting too large far behind schedule in spite of done, for the amount of our

a proportion of our resources the fact that many American arable land was at the boginning

from commercial work which firms had been manufacturing of the year more than 2,000,000

ON June 30 this letter was needed to maintain our for the Allies for the previous. acres less than in 1914. Sir R.

was forwarded to the economic life and in particular two years. Dorman-Smith has announced

Ministry of Munitions with a our export trade.

The delay was chiefly due to another ploughing campaign for

covering letter stating that if Finally the programme was the unwise decision of the the year after next spring, if

IN the late spring of the Ministry were able to meet opposed by not every other American War Department to the war continues. Whatever

1915 the army for Sir John French's request, some Government Department on the turn over the American factories. its course, we shall certainly, be

But deliveries were slow and "In the field by March, 1916 the supply of ammunition, which had not been ordered in anything like sufficient ́quan- tities, was badly in arrears.

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required to make the most which provision was being made further guns would be needed ground that it monopolised too that had been busy on British one of thirty divisions. for forces in other fields and to large a proportion of British and French munitions orders in effective use of all our resources was

A table labour.

previous years to American with the least possible delay. Between August, 1914, and the provide for wastage.

But thanks to the support of types and calibres and to intro- None of them has been so long First of June, 1915, orders had was therefore annexed showing

Mr. Asquith, the programme duce a third pattern of equip neglected or is capable of such been placed for 110 heavy requirements for 70 divisions.

By great expansion as agriculture, howitzers of all calibres,

The

and

By Sir Walter Layton

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Millions of acres of second and June 30, he howitzers had been third-rate grassland, it is issued to the Army, most of officially estimated, are now these being converted naval or yielding only a fraction of thecoust defence guns,

Within a week, preparations was maintained in spite of all ment into France. The "change- human food and animal feeding The Ministry of Munitions were begun in the Ministry to efforts to curtail it and the over" in the factories and the stuff's which they once provided. was formed at the end of May, allocate orders and for helping rapidly growing output of guns inevitable delays in getting pro- The present objective of In the third week of June an manufacturers to provide inbour and shells enabled the British duction going on a fresh set of agricultural policy in rightly de-important conference, attended and machinery for this pro- Army to take the offensive on a products paralysed production: fined as the maximum increase by a representative of G.H.Q., gramme. But in August, Mr. grand scale in July, 1916, thir- for many months.

In the spring of 1918, there-: in the productivity of the soil was held in Boulogne between Lloyd George, who was still dis- teen months after the Ministry and the maximum economy of Mr. Lloyd George

M. satisfied with the contractor' was established..

fore, it was decided to equip the American Army in Europe with shipping and foreign exchange. Thomas, the French Minister of promises, raised the programme

French field guns and British. Britain imported last year Munitions, at which, among to a basis of 100 divisions plus 7,500,000 tons of animal food. other matters, the requirements an additional margin varying THE complete justifica- heavy artillery and ammunition:

more nearly

tion of Mr. Lloyd of 6in calibre and upwards, for. farmers, of artillery were discussed. The from 10 per cent, to 25 per cent. whether milk or meat is their principal suggestion put for- for various types of gun. George's foresight quickly fol- the whole American Army.. main product, can eliminate ward at this. meeting by the these Imports by providing for French experts was the revolu- By the end of August, the lowed. Between June and Octo-

HE requirements of their stock from their own land, tionary one that the number of programme was finally settled ber, 1916, the following succes on the basis of a manufactaring sive demands were made upon

this war are very the botter for the nation. By heavy guns (6in. and upwards) programme of 2,666 heavy guns the Ministry of Munitions: the firet ploughing programme in the field should equal the and howitzers. This was nearly

At the end of June the French different from those of the war agricultural dependence on sea-number of field guns,

six times as many as the total began to express alarm at the of 1914. In particular, our re- borne supplies should be much Two days later, an inquiry number of heavy guns and rapid rate at which their guns sources have to provide much reduced. There is no intention from the War Office as to his howitzers in existence or on were wearing out as the result more formidable machines and. now of demanding that wheat artillery requirements elicited order at the time the Ministry of the terrific firing in the battle more personnel for the war in the air and for anti-aircraft de- should be grown on land which from Sir John French a request came into being.

of Verdun. Preparations were fence. But it is patent to every- will not give a good yield. As for a greatly increased estab

therefore put in hand for relin one that we are as yet very für to prices, the farmer must have

The programme for light field ing and renewing artillery on a from having called on the full a reasonable return. The

guns and howitzers was also very great acale. Government plan of taking con- possibly £9,000,000 for a

resources of the country. M arrangements - trol of the whole output of the year, and these figures are not wore, at once put in hand to the Commander-in-Chief wrote learned from the munition story In the second week of July. There are two lessons to be- land provides for that, and pudiated by the Minister of bring fresh firms into the-busi- demanding a further big increase of 1915. One is that imaginative ought to ensure that there are if it maintains the consumption ammunition programme

Food. It is a heavy burden, but ess of gun manufacture. An in the standard establishment of planning is an essential of vic- no exaggerated increases.

and production of liquid milk

to heavy artillery, to be reached in tory. The second is that "Whore In the case of milk it has been through the atrain of war and match this grent equipment and two stages. The Ministry was there's a will there's a way decided that the present level of rationing the money may be provide a greatly. Increased able to reply that for the heavi Once again, speed in action is retail prices shall be maintained well spent. Taken as a whole, ration per gun per day, was also est howitzers the maximum vital; for the sooner we reach at the cost of "temporary the plans bid fair to give Eng-organised, with all its associated programme Wha covered assistance" from the taxpayer land ampler security, to avoid demands for explosive, fuses, orders already placed and that the war will end. The call may

by the peak of our effort the sooner":" to the producers. The cost of the faver chart of boom and instruments of precision, raw only a small deficit remainded to involve discomfort and sacrifico. this was calculated by Mr. A. V. slump which left-farming to materials and additional Inbour, be covered in the case of 6in. But, if it is made in the right Alexander, the Co-operative disaster after the last war, and both skilled and unskilled. Howitzers...

way, the response will be na over-- spokesman, at £3,000,000 for to establish the framework of The primary justification for Early in August, G.H.Q. ask whelming as it was twenty-five. the projected three months, a properly balanced agriculture, placing orders of this magnitude, ed for a large number of the years ago.

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