Its ample stores and munitions of war were a priceless boon to Montgomery, who now redoubled his efforts to take St Johns.

All munitions for Demetrief's army had to go around it in the miserable, antiquated ox-carts.

From the moment of her entry into the war her economic problems became very difficult, especially that of the provision of guns and munitions in sufficient quantities, and the extent to which she solved this last problem is deserving of the greatest admiration.

The most urgent necessity will be to get back the vast moiety of the population that has been engaged either in military service or the making of munitions to productive work, to the production of food and necessary things, and to the restoration of that export trade which, in the case of Great Britain at least, now that her overseas investments have been set off by overseas war debts, is essential to the food supply.

"They send neither men nor munitions by our road.

At ten o'clock the next morning she sat behind her little breakfast tableit was daintily munitioned with a glass coffee machine, a grapefruit and a plate of toastwaiting, over The Times, for Rush to wake up.

It would have been stronger, defensively, than his existing line, and would have had the great advantage of being able largely to be supplied and munitioned during daylight, as there was much good cover and roads hidden in the pine woods leading down immediately behind it.

"No bond but interest attaches these men to America," he would say; "and, as for France, she only lets us get our munitions from her, because of the benefit her commerce derives from it."

No one thought of maintaining that, as long as there was any waste of these resources, so long as there remained any men to be "combed out" of unessential industries, you could pour troops and munitions into Salonika without stopping to consider the needs of other theaters of war.

It was a backyard of war, and there was the rumble of guns over the stones, and a litter of war's munitions under the church wall.