AN ARMY WITHOUT GUNS.
UNITED STATES'X'IiIEF ASKS FOR A BIG VOTE. Bt Tele-irritph—Press Ais-njation—CoDTrielit "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables : {Ree, January 9, 6.20 p.m.) ■ ■ Washington, January 8. Major-General Wood, Chief of 1 the General Staff of tlwr • United States Army, is asking for six.'million dollars (£1,200,000) for field artillery and ammunition, the amount to bo divided equally between the. regulars and the militia. Ho declares that if tho troops are sent to war as at present, without guns or ammunition, there • will be a slaughter, and adds iu his report: "I have neither guns nor*.ammunition, aitd I could not give any general commanding an army assurances ■of success if attacked by. an army'.of equl size supplied with a proper .quota, of field artillery." ''... •
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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122AN ARMY WITHOUT GUNS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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