THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1941.
Scraps of Information MIRACLE OF
ARMS INDUSTRY
Jeopardize the Nation
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TH
COLUMN ACTIVITY
Talk about
TIGER
Instead
Advt. of TIGER Prize Medal BEER
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS
IN
U.S.
AMERICAN WARPLANE and munition manu- facture, for the U.S. and lend-lease distribution, is now at record peaks, yet it is only in the begin- ning compared to what will be coming from the assembly lines later.
Deliveries of all types of aeroplanes, mostly mill- tary, totalled 1,216 in March. That is more than three times the finishing that was done last May, yet, as the fascinating story of munitioning the civilised world is told by John D. Biggers, chief of production for the Office of Production Manage- ment, that figure will be doubled by the end of this year, and "further increased, on and on."
The aeroplane industry expects coming off the line at five dif-
this to deliver between
mouth (ferent plants within a few weeks. and the middle of 1942 the stng-
gering total of 37,000 completely New Powder Plant equipped machines,
them
[1
21,000 of
Ariny.
the American Navy and Marine Corps. And even then, in the middle of next yeur, illeale deliveries will be Just lufting their shrude.
Thur
the
Guns and tanks and battleships me useless without powder. The Pont operated great new Du
al Charlestown, powder centre Ind. west its operation recently 11 IN
thand of such Tow fo plants
get into operation Eighteen more are being rushed
will th completion. and
5000
Job Is Being Done
United States, greatest industrial mass produces be turning out explosives. They
states. [1 wendel
non-millaryar located in 11 goods, swinging into the business of them in the South near basie of bettering the output of all the raw supplies cotton, coal, petro-
together.leum and sulphur. E of the world put
in the
It ha. been going from a slow stant
The going is still slow. agonisingly slow
to some Im. William 8.
patient critics of Knudsen, head of the OPM, with his governmental Siamese twin.
But Sidney Hillman. Knudsen and Hillman, who have all been asking for patience
along while the country got
the tooled up for
job." arc seeing daylight ahead of them.. Germany toted in 1934
1939.
Host
In the last nine months small arms ammunition, mostly for machine-gun use, has been in. creased 1.000 per cent, but that
of is scarcely the dribble worn out squirt gun compared to what is on the way-planta in 18 states turning out 2.000,- 000 rounds a day.
a
(The 1,000,000th artillery shell produced in six months' opera- |
Fac-
BY ANY
OTHER NAME--
Rome Radio has found a new name for a retreat. It colls it 'offensive
manoeuvring
"
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"In North Africa we have adopted manoeuvring offen- sive based on coun- ter-attacks which in- flict considerable. losses,"
said the
announcer.
to
"This manoeuvring offensive permits us
concentrate our forces on a line which, obviously, cannot be revealed.
"In East Africa we find the young Italian Empire bravely facing the old and hardened British Empire."
DR. WORKS
SIX DAYS
NON-STOP
A woman who was
on war farned out in one Chi- buried nearly six days cage plant.)
These are high lights of the under a tenement which tu defence production story
was wrecked in a Clyde- make is preat war Auchane for tores are turning out uniforms. land, sea and air, and began put-, and cump equipment, motor vehis side raid was rescued but ting at in work with the invasioneless and navul and cargo vessels she died later in hospital. of Poland in September,
and gear. A large part of the The Tited States started talking nation's industrial facilities are at
great work. A
deal more, 50 Krent seriously last June about
with What I mass
many more that eventually nearly lax delays in straightening out
every factory unit, regardless of Angles and getting appropria- isize, will be producing things to tions and authorisations through stop Hitler, are yet to be swung Congress,
Knudsen's organisato line.
production.
Tion did not really begin
to function until last November. Many Subcontracts Let
A.. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Now the job is being done. Here
WINE DEPT.
TEL. 20616
for the
of the
Hero of the rescue
Mc- woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Geachan, Was Dr. Stevan
worked al- George, who most without sleep for six days.
He it was who tunnelled his way into the wreckage to give the woman stimulants and in Jections.
Hope of rescuing anyone from the debris had been abandoned when moaning was heard early in the morning. In the light of workers torches police
rescue
are figures from Mr. Biggers to: Much of the actual direct con-
tracfing through OPM back up that assertion;
Aircraft production in 1939 in Army and Navy and for lend- the United States was $279,000,000, lease is through what are known started to shore up the wreckage courpared to the 1910 automotive as prime contractors, responsible with props. dollar total of $229,000,000. In big companies that are farming Dr. George, they said, worked 1940, production
scale. An Ohio manufacturer "With his bare hands," said one MODERN HOMES USE GAS which the world murvelion our sub-contracts on an amazing like a trojan.
his burrowed had mounted to $3,012,000,000 for making scout cars for the Army man, "he
The warplane 12 months.
until he is getting parts from 186 subcon-
rubble through now tractors located all the way from within a few feet of the woman. dustry is being tuned up for $4.000.000.000 production Massachusetts to Colorado. The He found her lying on her back In 12 months. That comparison Oldsmobile factory is making 20 in a cavity. Only a foot separat-
It is farmed her body
give scientific oven-heat control
GAS
make every dish a success
cook a whole meal without attention
COOKERS
make meal-times more punctual reduce the cost of cooking
Write
Call or Phone
HONG KONG & CHINA GAS co.,
A
in-
way was
of
between in itself.
30 years of millimetre cannons.
from the tons automobile making and three ing out the making of 181 of the debris which had crashed on top
aeroplane making. is 194 parts in that gun. years of
analysis worth a volume of itself.
in
of a strong timber frame.
worked Inside "The doctor the tunnel for five hours giving Injections, and at any moment the debrie might have collaps- ed."
The total spending for part of 1939, all of 1940, all of 1941 and 1942 on defence and lend-lease Output Up 14,000 Pct. goods alone will be around $44,- |000,000,000—and that is 44 billions. The making of ordnance, big not millions. Contracts let dur-
fiscal little guns, is expanding ing the current
year to 14,000 ptr cent over the an: dale aggregate better than $12,-
fast 20 000,000,000. Much nual average of the
of the Job "SEE THE MINISTER” That is not a misprint that is just now swinging Into years. -It Is 14,000 per cent.
deliveries has had to be done by
out
and
of
а
When a lad of nineteen men- Deliveries of 30 and .50 calibre newly built and newly equipped toned at Bromley, Kent, Police machine-guns are running just plants. Over the last nine months Court that he was unemployed,
government-owned about parallel to the curve figured 931
plants the Chairman, Sir Waldron Smith- "You had About 70 were ers. M.P., told him: last autumn by Knudsen, have been built.
Ministër the see Biggers and their aids. Yet pro- put up with British funds, prior better
from to adoption of the Lend-Lease | Labour." duction will be increased
The youth, fined £1 för the present all-time peak by Act. 500 per cent In the smallér
Furthermore, 904 new plants-cycling offence, said he had been
six months bút 'bf work. calibres and 1,000 per cent for additions, which amounts to the the others. Factories for maksame thing have been privately ing them are just about finished financed, so that the total of new EXPLOSION WRECKS plants, mostly big, put up for
and ready to begin.
HOUSE
The The making of rifles and other this defence, job is 1:305. small arms is ahead of schedule, cost of these plants and equipment
material cöüld "he "An explosion wrecked 'a 'house alone, before but will be increased by 83 started going through to in a south-east town temporarily much as 500 per tent. ·Army he processed by labour, was occupied by military. fanks of brand new design 'have $2,765,000,000.
Over
“CLOUT”"" FÖR BERLIN
Böme Army personnel were killed and others injured.. It is not thought that the explosion was due to enemy action.
been given lesser priority other defence Items because they are not needed so urgently now, but more than 100 13-tonners are being delivered monthly to-
Lt. Col. J. T. C. Moore Braba- day, and by December the Army will be getting 200 a month. Zari, Minister of Transport,spodku.
The LTD.
new and somewhat ing at a Chestsey War Weapons mysterious medium, 26-ton tank, Week meeting said:
Kowloon Showroom--246, Nathan Rd Telephone 67241. Central Showroom-uloucester Bldg, Telephone. 24704.
BOYS AS BOMB THROWERS.
Schoolchildren In Sweden are
which the ordnance départment "We want bigger "und Better to have détente lessons. Boys thinks is a honey, with fire power bombers for Berlin, and to give will be taught shooting and how and mandeuvrability greater than the Germans not a smack in the to throw hand grenades. Girls
will learn first did. Reuter, anything hitherto known, will be eye but a damn good clout.".
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