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ACTION FOR RETURN
OF CRAFT
SHIPS AT ONCE
War Cabinet approved of the first report of the Shipbuilding Board recommending the immediate construction of three 9,000. tons overseas merchant vessels,
:
would be
One will be built in N.S.W. one in Queensland, and one in South Australia Expansion of shipbuilding facilities In Victoria Hearing of the case in which two
is being investigated. Junk masters are involved and in
The which one is suing the other for
Government was directea! Kingdoka
about 7,500 the return of a junk alleged to have the board to aim at at least 60 tons.
Builders' sub-contracts with aided the Japanese in a piratical ships as a long-range objective. act on the high seas was resumed The programme was announced other workshops as far afield as the Minister for Munitions West Australia were contemplat- before Mr. E H. Williams at the by
The board ed. Summary Court yesterday.
(Senator McBride).
EXPAND FACILITIES
84.
The plaintiff, Mak Shiu, of No. bas. recommended, that funds be 18. Ko Shing Street, first floor, is made available for the expansion
Many offers to build ships had claiming for the return of junk of present facilities.
been received, but for the time No. 3945H. and its appurtenances The board, in its report, recog-being the board was concentrat- or its value. $1,000, and costs of nised, the demands an
machine ing an overseas cargo vessels the action, from Lam Cheung tools and skilled men. but could the more essential need. wing of No. 386 Castle Peak Road. see no insuperable obstacles to Phintiff was represented by Mr. production of the number of aldps C. d'Almada, and the defendant required by Mr. J; M. d'Almada Remedios.
FIBED ON
by the Government within a reasonable time.
Facilities for construction, in- cluding the production of hulls, reciprocating engines, ballers and auxiliary machinery had been re- viewrd
9,000-TONS STEAMERS Senator McBride said that the The board had recommended Giving evidence yesterday, Wong
immediate results would Ah-lu said that plaintiff was the board had recommended a British that
suit best be achieved by concentrating owner of junk Nc, 3345H of which standard ship modified to he was a member of the crew. He Australia's requirements in speed on expansion of existing organi- the sations with the necessary plan- remembered the day when the and refrigerated space as
ning staff, personnel and machine junk was fired or by a vessel and type to be bullt.
shop's. be 器 It would later. was boarded by some persons
single-screw,
Later. the development of suit- who appeared to be Japanese. shelter-deck steamer," with five
sites would De consi- They were sent ashore in a boat. hojds, having a deadweight ton able new After further evidence had been age of 9.000 and a gross tonnage dered.
SHIP REPAIR BASES called in support of plaintiff's of 5,200
Senator McBride has authorised case, hearing was adjourned to The cargo capacity on à voyaRe
for necessary Monday, June 16 at 9 a.m.
between Australla and the United jexpenditure
chine tools to be ordered imme- diately. As far as possible these will be of Australian design and manufacture.
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GENERAL MOTORS MONTHS AHEAD ON DEFENCE WORK
com-
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The board has been authorised to proceed immediately with ne- cessary alterations to the floating dock at Newcastle to enable its full use for ship repair work.
It is also investigating the pos- sibility of equipping Walsh Island (Sydney) for immediate use as a Brown-ship repair base.
NEW YORK, April 17-General Motors Carp. is now in pro- duction on its $61,000,000 machine gun order and is months ahead of schedule. Charles E. Wilson. President of the pany, declares, states the Christian Science Monitor. Machine gun production lines Guide Lamp Division's are in operation in General Motors Lipe-Chapin plant in Syracuse by. plants in Saginaw and Flint, mid-summer.
Mich., and a stock of the com. At peak operations the four pleted guns is being built up, plants will employ about. 10,000 ready when called for by the workers, most of them developed United States Army.
by General Motors trainee Prom grammes.
mountain
nor
The 381,000,000 G. M. machine
Japan-U.S. Relations
President Roosevelt's and Secre
Pacine
TA
MASS PRODUCTION These latest additions to Amer!- ca's rapidly rising
of gun assignment was inade by the tary of State Cordell Hul's derial defence materials are a sample of War Department last September. of the NEW YORK TIMES report what the automotive industry can Typical of what getting ready for alleging attempts by Japan to con- do in producing non-Eutomotive production involved was the job clude a non-aggression and net- defence products. Mr. Wilson said. at Saginaw, where draftsmen and trality pact with the United States They were not built in our regu-tool designers put in 62,000 man and Mr. Hull's declaration that lar production plants
with hours tuming out .8,000 tool draw the United States policy vis-a-vis our regular production machinery.ngs. It required 231,000 more Japan remains unchanged served the recent Japanese to make to crush but they are evidence of our masa manhours of labour
Įthese figs, fixtures and gauges. rumour campaign and clarify the production skill and know-how.
MANY MACHINES
situation, says the The G. M. machine gum assign-
When the Saginaw plant. 15 KUNG PAO in an editorial on Ja- ment, the first such order given | outside the small
operating at full production, it panese-American relations. Arms industry
For the past ten years since the In the East, is alloted to four will contain 1,300 different milling
Michigan. Machines, lathes, grinders. etc.. Mukden Incident on September 18, corporation plants in Ohio and New York. Fifty-one on which 1,800 separate machine 1931, the United States polley other companies throughout the operations will be performed per towards the Far East, namely, op
The .30-calibre machine position to Japan's armed aggres- East and Middle West are furnish-Bun.
guns have 189 parts, some of which ston and her so-called "New Order ing parts and materials.
many as 66 distinctir. East Asta." has remained con- be require as A four piants expect to
sistent. Any attempt to in full production by late fall, machine operations.
.50-calibre tuming out 30 and
The machine guns manufactur- this policy will only prove to be ́a
Brownings.
the ed by General Motors are air-boomerang, the paper says.
Recalling the recent Japanese at- Saginaw Steering Gear Division cooled and can fired from 600 to plant has been running on a pro- 1.400 rounds a minute, depending tempts to court the favour of the duction basis for about two weeks on type. The effective range of United States, including the pro- five-acre, glass-walled the 50-calibre gun is more than posed visit of the Japanese Foreign building which will have its format four miles.
in a new
At Saginaw
dedication April 23.
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MORE PRISONERS CAPTURED
CAIRO, June 10 (Reuter)
In Iraq all is quiet.
reverse
Minister Mr. Matsuoka to America and the rumour "offensive lately, the paper apines that the main purpose of these attempts was to settle the "China Affair." By, pro fessing her desire for a rappro- chement with the United States, The Japan hopes to alienate the latter states from China so that American ald to Chine might be curtailed.
ed its final assembly line func- tioning on a production basis Middle East communique the 50-calibre machine guns this that there is no change in
plant in situatior in Libya. week. The Frigidaire Dayton, Ohio, now moving into a
In Abyssinia British troops new building will get into pro- duction in June on .50-calibre continuing their advance west
the 30-calibre type the River Omo and further gurs. while will begin to come off the line at,soners have been captured
the
These attempts, the paper re- marks, only indicate that Japan is are not yet determined to break her of relations with the United States at
pri- present. However, an improvement
in their relatioris will be unlikely.
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