READY FOR WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 5

READY FOR WAR.

ALLIES’ GREAT PREPARATIONS. BRITAIN AND FRANCE PUT TWO MILLION FRESH MEN IN THE FIELD. SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED. A THOUSAND NEW BIG GUNS. (Press Assn. —Extraordinary) (Reed. 12.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, MrCch 19. A message from Paris indicates the magnitude of the preparations for the Vllies’ big advance. The carrying capacity of all the roads has been increased in order to cope with the enormous quantities of munitions to be transported ’to the front. Thousands of motor vehicles are also employed. lu addition to Britain’s new tinny of a million which has been moving across the Channel during- the past two months, France has a million men splendidly equipped and ready to take he field at a minute’s notice. The artillery brigades are augmented by a housand new guns, parked at convenient positions, and ready for immense e use. GERMANY’S LATEST SUBMARINES. (Reed. 12.35 a.m.) NEW YORK,’ March 19. Some American authorities regard the presence of a German submarine an the Galway coast a s proof that the newer German types have a cruising range wide enough to make a dash across the Atlantic.