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Identifier: literarydigesthi10hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n undernormal conditions, could not turn out anything approaching anadequate supply. With railways and ports congested with transportwork, and with trans-oceanic shipping facilities greatly reduced—at times raw material was two months in going from New York toBirmingham, and six weeks from Liverpool to London—a breakdownbecame almost complete. One firm that had contracted to deliver1,000,000 shells had ready only a ))itiful 10,000; another that con-tracted for 500,000 delivered 45.000. To make matters worse, manyof the shells that became available were not of a character bestsuited to the w^ork in hand. Tenders from responsible Americanfirms were ignored. As a consequence the long-heralded spring drive of 1915 got nofarther than a few lines of German trenches, and these were won ata cost in lives unparalleled in ))revious warfare. A really con-siderable French advance, the ultimate success of which was largelydependent on British cooperation, was almost stultified by a British 246
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LLOYD GEORGE AND THE PRINCE OF WALES After a luncheon at the House of Commons 247 .•^KETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY failure, and the Germans, now made safe for an indefinite periodaii:ainst an offensive on tlie Western Front, turned on the Russians,Avho at that time were ahnost ready to iro throuirh the Carpathianpasses to the ))lains of Hun;,^ary—and so started their irreat eastwarddrive under Mackenseii after the Dunajee battle. With McKennaamply eciuipped to fill Lloyd Georijes portfolio as Chancellorof the Exchequer, it was natural that the head of the new depart-ment, the Minister of Munitions, should be the Cabinet Minister whohad foreseen the necessity of its formation almost since the outbreakof war. So it came about that the little Welshman with the sunniestof smiles, kindliest of eyas, wannest of hand-clasps, and love of hisfellow men in his heart, bent his eneroy and his talent for origaniza-tion to the task of building up for England a war-supply machinewhich, in the

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