In June, 1917, we had six thousand heavy guns,
all of them modern. During our spring offensive in 1917, we
had roughly one heavy gun for every twenty-six meters of
front. If we had brought together all our heavy artillery
and all our trench artillery, we would have had one gun for
every eight meters in the battle sector.
In August, 1914, we were making twelve thousand shells for
the .75's per day, now we are making two hundred and fifty
thousand shells for the .75's and one hundred thousand
shells for the heavy guns per day.
If you wish to consider the weight of the shells which fell
on the German trenches during our last offensives, you will
find the following figures for each linear meter:
Field artillery 407 kilos
Trench artillery 203 kilos
Heavy artillery 704 kilos
High Power artillery 12 kilos
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Total 1442 kilos
And these are the figures for the monthly expenditure in
munitions for the .75's alone:
July, 1916 6,400,000 shells
September, 1916 7,000,000 shells
October, 1916 5,500,000 shells
During the last offensive the total expenditure amounted to
twelve million projectiles of all calibers.
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