_Machine guns and machine rifles:_ Per cent of rate for Great Britain. Great Britain 181,404 ========== 100 France 229,288 ============= 126 United States 181,662 ========== 100 _Rifles:_ Great Britain 1,971,764 ========== 100 France 1,416,056 ======= 72 United States 2,506,742 ============= 127 _Rifle and machine-gun ammunition:_ Great Britain 3,486,127,000 ========== 100 France 2,983,675,000 ========= 86 United States 2,879,148,000 ======== 83 British and French production of rifles during 1918 was at a lower rate than had been attained because there was no longer need for original equipment of troops.] Prior to November 11, 1918, America produced in the 75-millimeter size alone about 4,250,000 high-explosive shell, over 500,000 gas shell, and over 7,250,000 shrapnel. Of the high-explosive shell produced 2,735,000 were shipped to France up to November 15, 1918. In all 8,500,000 rounds of shell of this caliber were floated--nearly two-thirds of it being shrapnel. American troops on the line expended a total of 6,250,000 rounds of 75-millimeter ammunition, largely high-explosive shell of French manufacture drawn from the Franco-American ammunition pool. American high-explosive shell were tested in France by the French ordnance experts and approved for use by the French artillery just before the armistice. [Illustration: THE MUNITIONS BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Lincoln Memorial and the Potomac River in the background.] [Illustration: A PARK OF AMERICAN-BUILT 155-MILLIMETER HOWITZERS AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.] [Illustration: AMERICAN-BUILT G. P. F. 155-MILLIMETER GUNS STORED AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.] [Illustration: GUNS OF VARIOUS SORTS AND SIZES RETURNED FROM FRANCE BY AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES JUST AS THEY WERE UNLOADED FROM TRAIN AT ABERDEEN.] [Illustration: AMERICAN-BUILT ORDNANCE MATERIAL, PARKED ON ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.] [Illustration: AMERICAN-BUILT ORDNANCE STORES AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.] [Illustration: A PARK OF AMERICAN-BUILT CAISSONS, BACK FROM FRANCE, AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.] [Illustration: CHARGING FLOOR OF AN OPEN-HEARTH FURNACE.