Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — PLAN TO SPEND $3,000,000 [ARTICLE]

PLAN TO SPEND $3,000,000

French Officers to' Buy Supplies for Army In U. S. New York, Oct. 20.—Several officers of the French army arrived on the French liner Touraine and will spend $3,000,000 for American horses and manufactures in the next three or four weeks. Among the supplies they will purchase are 20,000 horses in the West, 10,000 army wagons, several hundred thousand bushels of horse feed and many thousands of blankets, gloves and other articles of clothing. Only one horse in every ten may be white or gray, as those colors make too good targets at the front.