It is true we are still suffering from a shortage
of ammuni- tion, though things are going better than they were, but it is nothing to the shortage whicli existed at the beginning of the war. We merely did not feel that shortage, because numeri- cally our Army was so "contemptible." Now not only have we vastly more rifles than we had, but we have a far larger number of pieces of artillery, machine-guns, shells, and general equipment. Competent observers, indeed, tell us that the battalions of the New Army are not only splendid as regards both men and officers, but are more efficiently equipped than any army which has ever before taken the field. Our Army is twenty times as strong an instrument for war as it was— if see include, as we have a right to include, the gallant troops sent to us by the self-governing nations of the Empire and by India. And there are plenty more whore these came from. Already the Canadian, Australian. and New Zealand Governments have put some three hundred thousand men in the field or in training, and we do not doubt that in the end the Dominions and India together will have provided us with at least half a million men.
