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SECRET ARSENAL Bigger Than Hyde Park

(By A. J. McWhinnie)

Chorley.

I AM the first newspaper- man to pass through the closely-guarded gates behind which, over an area bigger than Hyde Park, the world's greatest arsenal is being rushed up, near Chorley.

In the national interest I cannot reveal the secrets behind the 600 buildings and 40 miles of roadway which the public will never sec, and which it will bo almost impossible to locate from the air.

GRACIE THERE

But I can tell you about the 10.000 men who are erecting the arsenal- men with a hundred accents who reach the site with a special pass and who pour into Chorley each day outside to a railway station the world has never seen.

They have just had their own gala In grounds adjoining the site. The contracting firm. Sr Lindsay Parkin- son and Co., Ltd., gave them a day out to mark the work of "the finest army of workers in the world."

went

It wun great day for Lanenshire. That is why Gracie Fields there, as their chief guest.

They took their wives and child- There must have been more than 40,000 there.

ren

You heard women above the blare of the fairground asking their hus bands: "Couldn't we have a look at the job, dear?"

BEST IN HISTORY

You heard the answer: "I've told

you Park

UFS!

With New York temperature more than 90 degrees, in the hottest day of the year, Kuda Bux, brown-skinned young Mo- hammedan from India, found his position too hot, when he tried walking in his bare feet over a bed of coals. Above, he is leap- ing off the hot embers before he completed half the distance. Unsuccessful trial was held at Radio City.

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Govern-

walk round 1, and no woman hog/now being arranged are success-/onel A. H. Bell, President of

the Job is bigger than Hyde it would take two days to

ever stepped on the site since it was agricultural land."

ful.

the British Society of Dovisers, told The British Society of Dow the Dally Hereld that had the advice of dowsers been taken before oil drilling was begun elsewhere in this country, much wasteful expenditure could have been avoided.

I met several trade union leaders sers claims that the presence of there. Two, Mr. B. Sandercock, of the Amalgamated Society of Wood-oil at Dalkeith, Scotland, was workers, and Mr. Luke Fawcett, confirmed by a dowser before President of the Building Trade the successful bore was sunk Workers', travelled up from Lon- there by the Anglo-American

Oil Company. "It's the greatest building job in history." they told me.

don.

"Major Pogson," he said, "reported unfavourably on several of the bores recently carried out at various places in England, all of which have proved The licence for boring at Dalkeith' unsuccessful.”

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