The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
War STORES RUSHED
GREAT FLEET OF TRADE SHIPS
FILL VLADIYOSTOK
MAY Save RUSSIAN ARMY
Great Britain, France and the United
States are Rushing Supplies Need
ed by the Cars Legions-Big
Gangs Of Laborers Build Docks
With FeyeriSh Haste.
With FeyeriSh Haste.

Twenty thousand American freight
cars and forty American locomotives
are due in Vladivostok, Manchuria,
from the United States within 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
Vladivostok will give them these.
They need dynamite; they need pig
lead and pig copper; they need cot
ton to be made into clothing; they
need food-and Vladivostok hopes to
see to it that they get it all.
The guns and rifles and ammuni-
tion are arriving from Japan and the
United States by the steamer load.
The armored motor cars are coming
by the hundreds from the United
States. They are being made at De-
troit and Cleveland and other points,
and they are going out there mostly
by way of Seattle on vessels which
sail direct to Vladivostok. So also
is the lead, copper, and dynamite.
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 locomotives and cars to get them
off to the front. It is piled high OIL
the hills back of the city waiting for
its turn to be forwarded to Moscow
and other 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 ther they are shipped by
railroad to the Black Sea to be
mounted on the, warships Russia is
building.
From France has come ammuni-
tion. From the Unite States have
come several nine-inch guns-also to
find their place on Russian warships
in the Black Sea. And, above all, is
coming barbed wire from America
an amazing quantity of ito protect
the trenches Of the Russian armies.
Ships bringing these vast supplies
are arriving in such numbers and
with such rapidity that they can not
be accommodated at the docks. Plans
of permanent enlargement Of the port
has been temporarily put aside in
favor Of provisional enlargement.
Huge gangs of men are building
pontoon piers and transshipping their
cargo to lighters, but 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 sup
plies 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
Vladivostok proper extends series
of fortified places.
All these, when not used as prisons
for German prisoners of war, serve
as drill grounds for Russian 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 hurried off
across Siberia.
The mushroom war growth of
Vladivostok as a port Of commerce,
together with the extra occupation of
looking after detained civilians and
the interests of the prisoners of war,
has given the American consulate
great prominence and responsibility
as well as work.