The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-01-18
Critics say She Needs MN
Divisions tor West Front
Before Great 0ffen
sive Can Succeed
TURN 10 BIGGER GUNS
Enough Small Ones to Insure
Their Part Now On Hand
supply IS Shells
Grows Rapidly

London. Jan. i6-ThO Times. milf
tary correspondent maintains that the
p~rolongation OF the war. sas 4 result
Of h foredoomed failure IS the peace|
throws on all tho nM1es the!
duty Of making greaterserorts IN order!
20 deserve victory. He says that Ger
did not wait Tor aSrepty to her
peace offer, but Initiated measures n
month g to expand her supply OF mon
and munitions.
I'VE ought to see.' the correspond
ent writes. clearly enough that our.
efforts on land. especially on the west
tern 'front.', nave not een adequate to-
secure q decision Or eversto deserve II.
Referring to the ii~mputatioI," with 8
tendency to exaggeratfon,ss' that the
n the French have 100000, he says
Sees Shortage Of Men.
Statements OF this nature serve to;
obscure the Issues rather than to IL
,uminate them. 1t ought to be known
and admitted that the aggregate na-
-ional strengths do not express the real
value Of fighting armies. We all ought
to count In bayonets and gums In order
to ascertain III chances OF vfctnse a.sA
when we count In this the fig
ures dwtndle to quite q different total
The truth Of the situation is tina In the
west, Germany has 128 divisions 3
posed to U.S., and that the number OF
= S.A0A IAAA 9Ok6&AxA4 AxYkS4Okk0
Is not yet such as to promise q decision.
in an offensive war.
The writer declares that there ie Is
crying need for more men and that.
there has been a great remissness In
the creation Of new divisions along the
lines of K~itchener.s original conception.
We need another 60 divisions n the
west" he concluded. THE necessary
men exist and there is every probable
ity that their appearance In the field
will decide the wal" 3.
English mnnition factories are now
turning out every 48 hours more heavy
gun ammunition than they manufac-
tured In the entire first year OF the war
and the production is increasing each
week in preparation for the great of
fensive on the western front which
British military critics believe will
come next spring.
Many Machine Guns.
Dealing with guns in the same way,
1t is found that representing the NUM-
Der of guns manufactured during the
first year OF. the war by 100, h NUM-
Der for the second year would be- 841,
and for the third year win be some
where in the neighborhood OF 1850. The
manufacture of lighter pieces has had
to be slackened recently, owing to the
fact that the equipment of the British
army in light field pieces Is approx
mately complete and it is only necessary
to provide for requirements n res
neWals.
Representing the total number OF
machine guns delivered to the army
during the first year as 100, the total
for the second year was 1880, and for
the third year will exceed 6,000.
The production of trench mortar am
munition and grenades has been so
highly developed that any further in
creases scarcely seems necessary.
The increase in the manufacture OF
explosives has been tremendous. For
every ton of explosive employed in Sep
TENDER, 1914. $50 ton were employed
in July, 1915, and $4,000 tons in July,
1916.