Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-10-06
FRANCE WANTS HORSES;
ITALY WANTS A|RSH|PS;
THEY ALL WANT BREAD
or heavy work.

or heavy Work.
So far the steamship lines have not
closed the contracts, owing to the diff
Guilty of getting to Bordeaux. Ships
have to wait at Paulliac for three or
four days in rough weather before they
can go up the River Garonne to that
city Another objection is that the
United, States regulations regarding
the shipment of horses are so strict
that it would cost from $500 to 5000 &c
fit the decks with sufficient ventilators
of regulation size.
A rush order for 10000 barrels of
-four was placed with a St. Louis mill
ing company by representatives of one
of the warning European nations, the
identity of which was not disclosed.
This is the largest single sale of flour
ever made in ST. Louis.
The -four will be made of Kansas
wheat and will require $4,000 bushels.
Shipments from Kansas fields will be-
gin within a few days and the flour
will be rushed to this city as fast as
made. The price was not made public.
! Enea Bossi, Italian aviator, is here
with a commission from the Italian
Government to purchase aeroplanes
and motors.
Italy now has seventeen dirigibles,
two of them as big as Zeppelins; 200
biplanes and sevent- hydroplanes, Mr..
Bossi said.
Thirty-seven representatives of Am
erican motor truck manufacturers who
have been demonstrating their trucks
lat South Bethlehem, Pa, for several
weeks were informed by E. c. Grace,
president of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, that recommendations for the
types of 1000 trucks wanted by France
and Russia for use in the present war
have been made by committee of
French army officers now in South
Bethlehem, but that the contrasts
would not be awarded at once.
The Bethlehem Steel Company, it
was learned, is the purchasing agents
for Russia and France for motor
trucks and army supplies, srch as
shoes, blankets and horseshoes.
An order for 100000 tons Of steel
sheets, estimated to be worth from $4,-
100000 to $6,OOO,OOO, is in prospect at
Pittsburg, according to adviees recsiv-
ed here.
The sheets are required for housing
field troops engaged in the European
war during the approaching winter.
/ Details of the contract are meagre. 1t is
said the British Government will be the
buyer
The sectional sheet metal houses in
stead OF tents for troops exposed to the
elements during the severe weather
have been adopted as the most service
able.
Millmen think the order will be di-
vided among the makers and because
OF the present activity of the plants in
the sheet trade it will be some time be-
fore all the shipments can be made.
The significance of the aspect of the
case is that the British are preparing
for a long campaign.
Wool Blankets Sought.
An agent here of one Of the best
known blanket manufacturers Of Mas
sachusetts said today that men repre-
senting themselves as agents Of the
German nation and others Of the
French nation had been seeking figures
on a contract to supply several million
blankets to their soldiers.
The price the foreigners offered was
so ridiculously low That the manufaO
turers could not talk business with
them.
The boot and shoe industry is
watching closely the developments of
the war, with particular reference to
South American markets, no. closed
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