Sunday, March 7, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n
In billets Rue\u00a0du Quesne<\/strong><\/p>\n The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMen paid. \u00a0Battn resting.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cA Times Correspondent, vouched for by the editor as one of the first living authorities on copper statistics, has been figuring out that Germany and Austria have 1,300,000 men using rifles on the battle-front day in and day out.\u00a0 He believes that each man will use on an average twenty rounds a day of ammunition.\u00a0 To make this will require 305 tons of brass daily.\u00a0 The Maxims will use up 30 tons a day.\u00a0 Of the aggregate not more than seven tons a day will be recovered and returned to the arsenals as scrap.\u00a0 The heavy and light artillery will consume daily 105 tons of brass. The brass used in the field has 72 per cent of copper in it, so that Germany and Austria are firing away 309 tons of copper per day, or at the rate of 112,000 tons a year.\u00a0 It is the opinion of this expert that less than 40,000 tons can be produced in Germany and Austria even under high pressure.\u00a0 It is known that electric light installations in the smaller centres are already being dismantled to provide copper, and that Belgian domiciles are being denuded of their kitchen utensils.\u00a0 Despite all this, and the constant smuggling of copper into Germany, The Times correspondent is convinced that the essential metal is already scarce, and that if the blockade is kept up vigilantly \u2018the fall of both Empires is certain.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 Ammunition supplies will inevitably fail.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, March 7, 1915 In billets Rue\u00a0du Quesne The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMen paid. \u00a0Battn resting.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cA Times Correspondent, vouched for by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 7, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBig Battle Rages in Vosges Region,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936)<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Friday, March 5, 1915, pg. 2. col. 2<\/pre>\n
![http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBig Battle Rages in Vosges Region,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936)<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Friday, March 5, 1915, pg. 2. col. 2<\/pre>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, March 7, 1915 In billets Rue\u00a0du Quesne The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMen paid. \u00a0Battn resting.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cA Times Correspondent, vouched for by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg\"){kind=link}