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FORSTER.-On Thursday, January 4, 1940, ut the French Hospital, William Latton Foster,, aged 75 years, late Chief Officer S.S. "Chuen Chow."

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Friday, January 5, 1940.

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amqunt of sympathy in the British Empire for the German people, ground down as they are by the Nazi tyrants, and the Allies make it a condition of peace that Germany shall rid herself of the Hitler gang and establish a Government whose word counts for something.

With all our sympathy, how- ever, it must be admitted that

HITLER: "THE WAR IS OVER, HEIL HITLER, NOW BACK IN THE BOTTLE}"

GENIE:

"AH, BUT I'M DICTATOR NOW."

୧୧ Ten guns for every

Ten shells for

Ten tanks for

every

German gun German shell German tank 99

every

Here's how we

are making come

slogan

HAVE just returned

from a visit to some of Britain's key armament centres.

this

true

S. W. ALEXANDER

City Editor of the "Daily Express" describes a tour of Britain's armament works

thought of.

Many of them are elderly men with still-keen eyes, lining up the bus

The life of smaller guns may be as much as a few thousand rounds,. but all blg quas ot some time, or utlier, have to come in for repair. Their tubes wear out and they have to have new ones-new linings.

This involves taking out sixty feet of steel tube and Inserting a new one. The gun barrel is lifted up gently by rope which is nine inches in cir- cumference and will carry a weight of 150 tons. It le put end-up into a great pit, where it is heated by gus

a formidable arrangement of gas pipes is involved in this. The old lube is carefully taken out, and wher It gets cold again the new one is put

in,

In all this work the steel usod has. to be of the highest grade.

The

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development of high-grade steel in the past fifteen years has. altered the structure of the big guns.

There are some old ones in these factories which still have inside them thousands of yards of what we used to call piano wire. It was there to take the compression is the gun was. fired,

The new steel makes that unneces→ sary, It also makes for simpler con- struction and longer life.

As these great guns are made or remade, they are taken away, perhaps. disguised as a kind of birthday cake on wheels, and are tried out-shelling Intovast niöunds” of “card,

factories.

E me tell you about the muchin's In these vast

Germany produces, in her public In those places men, and

One of the most important is the life at least, a larger number of sometimes women, are working

riding machine. This makes those. beautiful grooves in the tube of the scoundrels рег head of the long hours and making a tre-

gun which cause the shell to rotate. population than perhaps any mendous effort to ensure that

at a great speed on it takes its course. - other country in the world. the men at the front shall have

A message I recently received from America suld that the British muni». Some such thought may have all the essentials of war ... So prompted Lord Bradbury to re- that there will be no munitions shortage unless by some chance the

tions factories were full of German muchines suggested that in this. mark that the German people shortage and no room for fear expenditure of shot and sheil should

matter of munitions-machinery we have shown themselves prone at the back of the minds of the be vastly greater than anything yet by the score exemining drst top were away behind the other man.

and tails and then sides. The chances to allow themselves to be do fighting men that they will be

of a defective bullet passing out are Germany hat always specialised one great factory I visited thus very small. These folk realise in certain types of small machine minated by leaders who have let dowri by the folks at home. IN there was a Hall of Giants, their responsibility and go about their tool. We have specialised in others made them impossible neigh- In those factories are being made Not a single man among the thirty work as if their lives depended on it which they do not produce, and Switzerland and America have speel- bours to other peoples who small arms, bullels, bombs, shells engaged in that particular place was-as indeed they may do.

allsed in yet other types. In normat desire to live their own lives. and mighty guns for the Navy and less than six feet in height great, fine specimens of

TALSEWHERE I saw the mak-times, this division of labour is a Therefore no settlement which the Army, Uttle pompoms te deal muscular men.

Jag of heavy bombs for our good thing. physleni fitness,

As a mere five-foot-one-and-a-half Royal Air Force.

In these big armament works I merely eliminates a particular with any low-fying aircraft which

may attempt to attack our vessels speelmen I gazed admiringly on these And here I saw the sandblasters. have looked out especially for Ger individual is going to prevent the sea, and a hundred other huge men, lifting with palts of tongs How comes it that men are pleased man machines. I could and only the rising of another obnoxious weapons of war, some of which are huge pieces of blazing metal from the to be shut up during their working one German rifling machine. It was top of a furnace and swinging them hours in little fortresslike buildings? obtained under conditions which are individual or another equally still kept a close secret.

Let mo say immediately that the skilfully to the ground in the right Pleased to be dressed in a weird unlikely to have caused it to be damnable political creed.

To overcome this danger Lord report 1 give of my visit to these Place so that they could be moved head-dress designed to give protec- selected as u bad specimen for our

on to the next operation.

tion to their eyes and, curs, doing especial benefit. But the quality of works is a wholly favourable one.

And here and there wLTO men nothing else all the time but spraying the materials of which it is made is. Bradbury proposes that the I cannot conceive of any munitions pushing along Vicsu samo pieces of vast quantities of tiny pieces of hard so poor that it has broken down terms of settlement ought to be

high-grade steel with their feet. steal-under great pressure-on to several times. It is not comparable Their boots are made of special the sides of these bombs in order to with the corresponding British tool. based on two guiding principles.

material, partly asbestos, and their smooth them off and remove ac- The first is that nothing should

be done to prevent Germany

from taking her proper place as a member of a peaceful family of European nations. The sec ond is that everything should be done to prevent Germany from again acquiring lethal weapons and the trained per- sonnel to make use of them, and she should be required to submit to a comprehensive aya- tom of international supervision to secure this beyond a per- adventure.

This looks very simple and reasonable, but would Germany or any other great nation con- sent to restrictions of this sort? In any case, discussion of settle- 'mont terms is somewhat pre- mature. The first thing to be done is to win the war. It is not wise to count our chickens before they are hatched,

James Agate picked this out. When, looking on the present

face of things,

I see one Man, of men the

meanest too;

Raised up to way the world,

to do, undo, With mighty waliona for his

underlings,

The great events with whichi

old story rings

Scem vain and hollow; 1. find

nothing great:

Nothing is left wiiich I can.

venerate;

So that almot a doubt within

ma springe

Of Providence,sanch, empiinces

at length,

Seems at the heart of all things.

Zut, great God).

I measure back the steps which

I have trod; And tremble, seeing whence

proceeds the strength

Of such poor Instruments, with

thoughts sublime

I tremble at the sorrow of the

time.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTIL

clothing, too, provides protection cumulations of muck acquired in the ALL steel coming into these

against fire.

process of manufacture?

works la first electrically There are plenty of people willing drilled for a sample. This is sent to THERE are, of counc, exclu- to take on that job even though it the laboratory. The temperature at sive places where no un-means working in terrific noise and which it shall be treated is decided authorised person is permitted to go what may appear to others to be from that sample. It is numberect.

and if by chance you did get in great inconveniences,

and followed through to the finished you would not get out again.

It, for instance, you want to com- Job, Many of theso buildings are | muricate with one of these men, a Do not imagine, however, that there strangely camouflaged. It is no gentle tap at the door will do no are no problems to be solved, Rapidly longer possible to identify them from good at all. He won't hear. You expanding industry always brings ita- the aid. Water courses which might will have to hit the sides of his fort- own problems. have reflected the moon by nighttress with something like a sledge- Thero arc problems of skilled. have been hidden by cunning devices. hammer—and if you hit hard enough! labour, and thero la an urgent need

he will just hear a gentle, top,

that women should be allowed to.

IN one place you will find! Maybe sandblasters are' bom, not come into the factories and partici....

men working in complete mudc. safety making those small bullets for

the 383 rifte, Small things those bullets are but beautifully fabricnt-

pate in this work.

Some, men tave been reluctant to STREMENDOUSLY interesting, gree, but to-day the problem is

too, is the work of repairing primarily one of making ready the- ed of high-grade steel and cleverly the big guns. If you go to some of necessary facilities and accommoda.. put together.

these works you will and a number|tion,

The method is simple-not unlike of huge guns lying on the grass. There is, on all sides, complete those child-timo puzzles in which you They look as if they are being un-evidence that all are willing to make. shake the contents of one box into cared for. Not at all. They are encrifices for the common good. another in exactly the required pool covered with rust-resisting paint, Mr. Leslie Burgin, the Minister of Lion.

and their insides are full of grease Supply, and his staff are working While millions of small bulleta pre—the ends being protected by wooden night and day, for it is realised that mars-produced every day, every one blocks,

at all costs the men at the front must of them has to be carefully examined, A sixteen-inch gun for the British bo supported. by the human eye; for faults, ja Navy weighs an enormous tonnage The great mass of the pubile, the

Those that have the alighiest defect and throws a shell weighing many wives and children of the front line- ara Instantly rejected. After their hundredweighis for a great distance. men, can, in my view, have complete- assembly, these bullets come into the Its life is probably only a few hundred confidenes that this purpose, wil bes hands of these checkers,

rounds.

achieved.