Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-20
Guns, Ammunition, Armored
Cars and Clothing Pour
ing Into Russia.
LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS
EXPECTED FROM U. S.
Japan and America Furnishing Sup
plies Needed by Musco-
vite Army.

correspondence of the Associated Press.
NLADIEOSTOk. June 25.-Twenty
thousand American freight cars and four
hundred American locomotives are due
here from the United States within the
next two months to relieve the congestion
of supplies destined for the Russian
armies at the front. The army corps on
the German-Austrian battle line need
guns, rifles and ammunition: Vladivostok
will supply them. They need armored
cars, many hundreds of them, and Vladi-
vostok will give them these. They need
dynamite: they need pig lead and pig
copper; they need cotton to be made into
clothing; they need food-and Vladvostok
hopes to see to it that they get it all.
The guns and rifles and ammunition
are arriving from Japan and the United
States by the steamer load The ar
mored motor cars are coming by the
hundreds from the United States. They
are being made at Detroit and Cleve-
land and other points and they are
coming out here mostly by way of Sc
attic on vessels which sail direct to
Vladieostok. So also is the lead, cop
per and dynamite.
Cotton Piled High.
AS for the cotton-it is coming out
from New York via Panama in such
vast quantities that more than any
thing else it has caused this terrific
congestion of supplies which has forced
Russia to place rush orders for loco
motives and cars to get them off to the
front 1t is piled high on the hills
back of the city waiting for its turn
cities to be manufactured into blankets
and uniforms for the soldiers.
From Great Britain have come guns
for the navy. They arrive by steamer
and then they are shipped by railroad
to the Black sea to be mounted on the
warships Russia is building. From
France has come ammunition. From
the United States have come several
nine-inch guns-also to find their place
on Russian warships in the Black sea.
from American amazing quantity
of ito protect the trenches of the
Russian armies.
Ships Are Everywhere.
Ships bringing these vast supplies
are arriving in such numbers and
with such rapidity that they cannot be
accommodated at the docks. A plan of
permanent enlargement of the port has
been temporarily put aside in favor of
Pl SHAai 6ShShe. A1uSC gangs
of men are building pontoon piers and
makeshift docks. Vessels unable to
squeeze into the piers are trans
shipping their cargo to lighters, but a
shortage of lighters has retarded even
that means of discharging. So the
Russians are building more lighters.
Vladivostok they believe is to save
the day for the Russian armies, and
every possible human effort is made to
forward these precious supplies to
their destination at the front.
The feverish activity at the water
front is duplicated elsewhere in this
great port. which, while peaceful in
itself. is the very incarnation of war.
Every month new armies are sent away
to the west. For five hundred miles
to the north of the fortress of Vladi-
vostok proper extends series of forth
fed places. All these. when not used
as prisons for German prisoners of
war, serve as drill grounds for Rus
sian recruits. The reservists come in
from all points in the eastern part of
the empire and within six months are
turned into soldiers. Then they are
hurled off across Siberia
The mushroom war growth of Vladi-
vostok as port of commerce, together
with the extra occupation of looking
after detained civilians and the in
terests of the prisoners of war, has
given the American consulate great
prominence and responsibility as well
as work.