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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR
is sixty-six times as large as it was at the beginning of 1915, by far the greater part of it being produced in Government factories.
A substantial quantity of finished munitions — such as shells, field howitzers, heavy guns, grenades, machine-guns, and small-arms ammunition — is now being manufactured in the national factories and by private firms for the Allies. Great Britain is sending to France one-third of the whole British production of shell steel. Metals to the value of $30,000,000 monthly, and very large quantities of constituents of explosives, are also being sent to the Allies.
Great Britain is supplying the Allies with millions of tons of coal
