MUNITIONS OF WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 28 May 1915, Page 7

MUNITIONS OF WAR.

ENORMOUS SUPPLIES LEAVE AM JO RICA. ENGLAND'S BIG GUNS ON WAY. Sim Francisco, March 31. Enormous quantities of war supplies are leaving tlie United States to assist thu Allies in the European war. During one week no less than twelve large steamers were being rushed in New 4 York in the loading of food supplies, ammunition, guns, motor trucks, and other material for the use of the Allies in the war. The French steamer lla'te left New York with a 1:2,000-ton cargo of war supplies, while another i'rontii vessel, I.a (iascoigne, carried away two thousand hoiscs for service ' in France. The end of that specific week saw a scene of extraordinary act Hay, for no less than one hundred thousand I to.ns of supplies, guns, ammunition, ;tu- | tomobiles, provisions, and hospital suplies left New York inside twelve hours in the holds of seven steamers bound, for ports in Northern and Southern Europe. The Adriatic, of the White Star Lin.;, carried 18,000 tons, the largest single shipment of provisions ever stowed on one steamer. Her pn ./.unade decks were lined with sixty big auto trucks. They were later unloaded at Liverpool, and reshipped to France immediately, in | build these cars were similar to those taken from Sydney by the Australian Expeditionary Imperial Force for service in Egypt. On the Cunard liner Ordnna's forward decks were lashed two 14-inch guns, measuring ">:) feet long Mid (iO inches wide at the breech. In . her hold were other pieces of ordnance, (ill part" Tif the 10,0011,000 dollar contact obtained bv Charles M. Schwab, ■ the ) American ''Steel King," of Pittsburg and j New York. The Ordima sailed to HaliI fax to take aboard 750 Canadian re- | eervists.

The American liner St. Louis, also for fjiverpool, carried provisions and a large quantity of hospital supplies and mail; the French steamer Kochambeau had 4(100 tons of hospital supplies; the Norwegian 1 America liner licrgcnsfjord carried provisions, hospital supplies, and ten American nurses going to assist in the work of the European Ked Cross. The Italian steamer Europa sailed for fienoa with 4(H) horses for the Italian Government, and close on midnight the steamer Kanawah left for the same port with 1,100 horses. The Herman population of the Eastern States have made frantic cil'orts to persuade the United States Government to prevent war supplies manufactured in America |Uid exported to the war zone of tlis Allies, and when this enormous week's shipment left tlie Teutons were maddeif' ed almost beyond frenzy in attempts to Btir up trouble between America and England. British warships continue to patrol the Atlantic, and all these immense supplies wero carefully guarded against the attack of any isolated cruiser oi the Kaiser bent on a raiding cxpediliui in the Atlantic waters. The raiding of Herman cruisers has Almost been reduced to nothingness, for practically all the Herman lighting ships Been in tlio Atlantic have been successfully accounted for by England.