Scarcity of Clothing
LtTDENDOBIT'S APPEAL TO GERMAN AEMY. Mr Henry Wood, special correspondent of the United Press with the French armies, gives the text of an order, issued and signed by General Ludendorff, which has been found on German prisoners:— "Tho consumption by the army of clothing and equipment, the demands for replacing and the requests for special equipment and special clothing such, for example, as clothing for the mountains,, equipment for the tropics are extremely high, and prove that in the army every one has not yet realised the gravity of our economical situation. If the army continues to use these things in the future as it has to date, it will take, in the very near lutuiv from the high command the possibility of continuing the war. The stocks of raw material coming from foreign tries are How exhausted or will be very quickly.
"I ask all branches of the army to give the most pressing instructions on tho necessity to economise carefully *13 effects of clothing and equipment, and to use as few of them as possible.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 May 1918, Page 3
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