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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1918, Page 5

lii a letter which lias been placed at the disposal of the "Farmere' Union ' Advocate,' a gunner at the front some interesting particulars of the,«*ft% . n of shelling the Huns "Sine© ywtoAtitirV"' "'Jf morning," he writes, ""we have ' I 1840 rounds, anil each shell weighs IQ#. p pounds. This means we have fired jjl I *j our battery alone about 80 ton* of pro* T, . jectiles. One day not very long ago, ' we fired 1540 rounds in 24 hotw, Altd <'■ ' since jve started firing about two months « 'iji jigo in this position, wo have fired >- ■ 27,000 rounds, which 'is about three- > fourths the life of the guns of the baft- ! 1 v ' i| tery; ours generally fire 0,000 to 10,000 rounds. While on figures, I heard that J the ammunition at llessincs cost £ls,* ''--5 000,000. To test this I calculated B# ■ follows: I lenew our corps there fired 260,000 rounds of heavy artilllery; avar* '' "ging them at about £lO it would make our corps' heavy artillery ammunition cost £2,000,000. Then there were tfcre* •' corps in the attack, so the total heavy '* ammunition would cost £8,000,000, ajffl & as the field-gun ammunition would pro- ,' i bably cost as much, £1.,066,000 wenftd ■'<•"'#s bt> probably about the mark. I should 'SgM think .the Ypres battle would coat MYW i era! times as auuji ior L yryrfll'tiiift . 1