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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER XIV: England the Slacker!
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Mention it yourself.

And tell them about the boy scouts and the women.

Fifteen thousand of the boy scouts joined the colors, and over fifty thousand of the younger members served in various ways at home.
Of England's women seven million were engaged in work on munitions and other necessaries and apparatus of war.

The terrible test of that second battle of Ypres, to which I have made brief allusion above, wrought an industrial revolution in the manufacture of shells.

The energy of production rose at a rate which may be indicated by two or three comparisons: In 1917 as many heavy howitzer shells were turned out in a single day as in the whole first year of the war, as many medium shells in five days, and as many field-gun shells in eight days.


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