Where Are Our Guns? Speech of Hon. Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, January 21, 1915
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We have on hand and in process of manufacture only 852 pieces of artillery. Gen. Wood testified before the fortifications conuiiittee last year that the entire capacity of this country, working night and day, is 500 guns in one year. Gen. Wotherspoon has estimated that we must accumulate 2,834 guns before war breaks out, while the General Staff of the United States Army puts the figure at 1,292 guns. How does this difference arise? AVhy is it that the General Staff presents one estimate and the... Chief of the General Staff quite another? The reason is that the General Staff made its esti- mate before the European war, and it calculated about three guns to every thousand men in the field army. The war has demonstrated that European armies count on about five guns to a thousand men. On that basis of five guns to every thousand men and on the basis of an army of 800,000 instead of an army of 500,000, the number of guns requisite is increased from 1,292 to 2,834. Russia, by the way, had 6,000 guns a year ago, Ger- many 5,000 guns, and France 4,800 guns.
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