UNITED STATES ARMY.
SHORT OF ARTILLERY AND AMMUNITION. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received 9. (i.2il p.m. Washington, January 8. General Wood, Chief of the UnMctl States General Stall', asks for six million dollars for licld artillery and ammtrnition. di'vidcif eqnallv between the regulars and the militia. He declares tiiat it troops are sent to war at present, without guns or ammunition, tliev would lie slaughtered. General Wood writes that the army has neither guns nor amm'uiiilion enough to give any general Commanding an army assurance of success if attacked by an army of eiptal , size supplied with its .proper quota of lield artillery.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19140110.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103UNITED STATES ARMY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in