... THE LEADER. 84 two of the four years and a quarter it raged. According to the ‘* English Review,’’ the battle of the Somme oould not have been fought by the Entente had the United States not supplied the ammunition, nor (said Mr. Bonar Law) could Great ...

... who has in everything but the name been in the war for the last two years. Indeed it is not too much to say that the battle of the Somme, as well as the greater one at present in progress, are the result of the airival of prodigious quantities of war material ...

... remarked at the time, ‘* It no exaggeration to say that without the American munition supplies there: would have been no battle of the Somme, and that we could not possibly have produced the explosives and material which have énabled us %o obtain the necessary ...