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BUT MUNITIONS ARE NEEDED
Liquor Interferes with Manu-.
facture of Ammunition, Is
Still Belief of Lloyd George
Details of Reverse in East
Africa.

London. April 81, 1910 o. m,--rhe British
eNpeditionary foroe in France which At
the beginning OF the war cons sted Of
six divisions. has been increased to more
than 36 divisions. or. roughly speaking
5000 men. according 10 n statemen.
made by David Lloyd George, chancellor
of the exchequer IN the House Of Com
mons this afternoon.
The chancellor added that the place
of every man who had fallen in battle
had been filled and that that army var
adequately equipped. But he reioeratrd
the need for a greater supply Of muni-
tions. declaring that during the batt.e
of Neuve Chapelle more ammunition was
used than In the whole OF the South
African war, which lasted nearly thres
years.
The interesting information also was
given that the output Of the munition
factories had been increased more than
nineteen fold since the outbreak OF the
war. but the call was still for more.
and. as Mr.. Lloyd George continues to
hold the opinion that consumption Of
liquor is interfering with the work, he
promised legislation to deal with this
matter.
The figures made public by the chan
cellor as 10 the size Of the British army
In France and the expenditure Of am
nnunition has caused great surprise In
England, where the opinion has been
general that only about ha,f that num-
her OF me1 had reached the front
especially as there has been no signs OF
any decrease in the number OF khaki
clad men training in this countr,
MANY UNDER FIRE
II is likely that many Of the new men
have already been under fire.. as the
Germans are making repeated attempts
TO recapturc hill GO. near Ypres which
the British took on Sunday. The Ger
mans have. according TO Field Marshal
Frenchs report, been repulsed with great
loss
There has been activity at many other
points along the western front and Berlin
which is more communicative than
Paris. says that the Germans have made
progress in the forest Of lie Pretr., near
St Mihiel and reports the repulse Of
French attacks in other sections from
Champagne to Alsace.
RUSSIAN ADVANCE AT A HALT.
Tho Russian advance in the Car
pathians has now apparently come to
a full stop. for reports from that re-
gion speak only OF attempted attacks,
which were repulsed. both in the
mountains and in the direction of Stry.
The Austro-Germans have made an
outfanking effort to support this lat
ter movement. II is stated from neu-
tral sources that the Austrians have
virtually evacuated Bukowina
Berlin supplies details heretofore
nf lrtS tal,
East Africa in January when a Brit
'sh force was defeated near Jassini
and lost heavily In men and ammun;
tion The other colonial wars are re-
ported to be going we'll for the allies,
progress being steadily maintained in
Kamerun and German Southwest Ar
rica.
RAID ON BORDER OF INDIA.
The British have also had TO deal with
n raid against India territory. on tho
northern border of the Peshawur val.
ley. undertaken by 1000 men in COM
mand Of fanatical mulla.h. After q fsw
hours fighting IN which the British suf
fered 20 casualties. the raiders were dis
persed.
In Mesopotamia the British are prrsu.
Ing the defeated Turks and havo occu-
pied Nakhailah, from which place tho
Turks fled last week, The Turks are te-
ng attacked also from tho Black see,
me Russian fleet having destroyed ten
Turkish supply vessels and bombardad
Arkhava.
From every side comes news Of the ae-
iiv1ty OF the air fleets. which have be~u
'usy bonbard towns and military sta
lions behind the lines of the armies The
british claim to have damaged the Ger
man airship harbor at Ghent