Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — The Use of Barbed Wire. [ARTICLE]

The Use of Barbed Wire.

Some idea of the extensive use of: barbed wire for trench entanglements may be gained from the fact that the shipments of wire from the United States to the allies now average more than a million pounds a month, and the total exports of barbed wire since last July amount! to more than 7,000,000 pounds. The barbed wire is shipped direct to England, and from there transship-, ped to France and Italy. This wire i is woven in complicated masses in front of the trenches, and has to be t replaced when it is destroyed by at- j tillery fire, which frequently happens. Of late the allies have been ordering considerable quantities of an extra heavy wire, with especially large barbed prongs. The Germans, j too, are well provided with barbed wire entanglements, but very little! of it is of American manufacture, although an occasional shipment is said to find its way into Germany through Denmark or Sweden.— Springfield Union,