THE STATES ARMY
ARTILLERY AND AMMUNITION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. Washington, January 8. General Wood, Chief of the United States General Staff, asks for six mili lion dollars for field artillery and ammunition, divided equally between the regulars and the militia. He declares that if troops are sent to war at present* ' without guns or ammunition, they would be slaughtered. General
Wood writes that the army has neither
guns nor ammunition enough to give i any general commanding an army assurance of success if attacked by an army of equal. size supplied with its proper quota of field artillery.
CAN SETTLE MEXICO.
(Received 8.45 a.m.) Washington, January 9
Wood said that though handicapped by lack of ammunition and artillery, military circles, were quietly confident that the American army would be able to deal with Mexico without any great difficulty.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 January 1914, Page 5
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