BOOTS FOR SiX ARMIES.
In a Tfccnf issue of the Shoe and Leather News some interesting particulars are given of the work done ihy British manufacturers in shoeing 1 lie armies of the allies, 11 is computed that since the beginning of the war the bools brunch oJ the Royal Army Clothing Department lias given orders for about 2(1,000,000 pairs of boots, including British, (Servian, Drench, Russian, Italian, and Belgian boots, and that of the total demand Northampton alone lias supplied one-fourth, or over 100,000 pairs » week. The following figures are given '.—Servian boots, (500,000 pairs; Italian, 450,000; French, 2,000,00(1; Russian “Cossack” boots, pow being made,-3,000,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1620, 5 October 1916, Page 4
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106BOOTS FOR SiX ARMIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1620, 5 October 1916, Page 4
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