The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-04
BRITISH ARMIES
MUST HAVE MORE
WAR MUNITIONS
Fate of the Allies Rests Upon the
Products of the ArSenaIS
ARTILLERY HAS WON FOR GERMANY
Lloyd.George Says Allies Would Now
Be Invaders if Supplied With Guns
and Ammunition.

Manchester. June S--David Lloyd
George, the new minister of munitions
declared in speech here tonight
that the German victory in Galicia
was due to an overwhelming superior
ity in equipment and that if the allies
in the west had been as well equip
ped the Germans would long ago
have been driven from France and
Belgium. He made stirring appeal
to employers and workmen to supply
the British armies with necessary
munitions.
The speech was delivered before
employers in the engineering trades
and trade unionists. Mr.. Lloyd
George, who had previously lunched
at the Clarendon club, received a re-
markable ovation from the people of
Manchester, which is in striking con-
trast to the manner in which he had
been received in this city on previous
visits of political nature, particul-
arly when he appeared at the time of
the Boer War as an opponents of the
struggle
81 come he said. "as an emissary
of state to carry the most urgent mes
sage ever told to the ears of Man
chester audience. Our country is
lighting for its life, for the liberties
of Europe, and upon what it does, up
on what it is prepared to sacrifice
depends the issue.
1T depends more upon the mast
workshops than upon any part of the
community whether Great Britain
will emerge from this colossal strug-
gle beaten, Inundated, stripped of
power, honor and influence, and
mere bondslave of cruel military ty-
ranny, or whether it will come out
triumphant, free, and more powerful
than ever for good in the affairs of
men,
Il come here to tell you the truth.
Unless you know it you cannot be ex
pected to make sacrifices.
"Our Russian allies have suffered
a severe setback. The Germans have
achieved a great success, not be-
cause of the superior valor of their
soldiers or strategy of their Generals
1.-THE German triumph is due entire
ly to superiority of equipment. to
Overwhelming superiority of shot
and shell and munitions and equip
ment 1t was a battle won by the
use they made of their skilled indus
tries, and especially by the superior
organization of German workshops
1.-TWO hundred thousand shells
were concentrated in single hour
on the heads of the gallant Russians.
Had we been in position to ap-
ply the same process to the Germans
on our front the Germans would have
been turned out of France and driven
half way across the devastated plain
of Flanders They would have been
well out of the country they had ter
tured and tormented with dastardly
cruelty; more than that, We should
have actually penetrated into Ger
many
For the moment we have more
than plenty of men for the equipment
available. More men will come to
the call, but we want the workshops
to equip them with weapons. The
State now needs the help of all, and
l am perfectly certain that British en-
gineers can do what the French en-
gineers have already done.
In France private firms have Civ
en- the State assistance in this criti-
cal hour which is beyond computa-
tion. The last French victories were
largely attributable to the private
workshops of France.
81 am here to ask you to help us to
equip our armies with the means for
breaking through the German lines
in front of our gallant troops, and
know you will do it.