§ 11. Commander BELLAIRSasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether any official estimate has been formed of the daily average use of cotton by the German armies in the field; and whether any official estimate has been published in the French Reports dealing with the state of the German Army?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Tennant)No, Sir, I cannot find that any official estimate has been formed of the average daily amount of cotton consumed by or on behalf of the German armies. Reliable data for such a calculation are not easy to come by.