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Ten guns

Ten shells

for every German gun

for

Ten tanks for

Here's

every

German shell

every German

how

tank 99

We

are making this

slogan

HAVE just returned

from a visit to some of

come

true

Britain's key armament S. W. ALEXANDER

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

| Germany produces, in her public

In

those places men, and

life at least, a larger number of sometimes women, are working scoundrels per head of the long hours and making a tre

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

thought of.

a mere

individual is going to prevent may attempt to attack our vesselja med adiniringly on there!

The life of smaller guns may be such as a few thousand rounds, but all big gunu at come time or other have to come in for repair, Their tubes wear out and they have to have new ones-new, lintrigs.

This involves taking, out sixty feet of steel tube and Inserting a new one.

The Am barrel is lifted up gently by rope which is nine inches in cir cumference and will carry a weight of 150 tons. It is put end-up into a reat pit, where it is heated by gas-e of gas a formidable arrangement pipe is involved in this. The old tube is carefully taken out, anel when it gets cold again the new one is put in.

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

The 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

fuctories which still have inside them thousands of yards of whnt we used. to call piano wire. It was there to tule the compression as 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-tre-tried-out-sholling- Into vest mounds cand.

LET me tell you about the machines In these vast

factories.

One of the most important is the riding machine. This makes those beautiful grooves in the tube of the gun which cause the shell to rotate at a great speed as it takes its course. A message I recently received from Amerien said that the Brilish muni-

Switzerland and America have speel- alised in yet other types. In normal times, this divison of labour is a good thing.

- Legapopulation than perhaps any mendous effort to ensure that other country in the world. the men at the front shall have 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 Many of them are elderly men with tions factories were full of German mark that the German people shortage and no room for fear expenditure of ahot and sat should-keen eyes, llning up the bullets machines... suggested that in this have shown themselves prone at the back of the minds of the vastly enter than anything yet by the score-examining first tops matter of munitions-machinery we

and tails and then sides. The chances were away behind the other ran. of a defective bullet passing out are Germany has always specialised. to allow themselves to be do- Lighting men that they will bej minated by leaders who have let down by the folks at home. IN one great factory I visited this very and to about her in certain types of small machine there was a Hall of Giants. their responsiblity and go about their tool. We have specialised in others made them impossible neigh- In these factories are being made Not a single mum among the thirty work as if their lives depended on it which they do not produce, and bours to other peoples who all arms, bullets, bombs, shells engaged in that particular place was indeed they may do. desire to live their own lives. ant mighty guns for the Navy and lose the six feet in height-greid. fine specimens of

"LSEWHERE I saw the make to deal muscular mers,

ing of I heavy bombs for our Therefore no settlement which the Army, litle pompoms

five-fool-one-anti-a-half Royal Air Force.

In these big armament works 1 merely eliminates a particular with any low-flying aircraft which physeal atness.

And here I saw the sandblasters.

have looked out especially for Ger the sex, and a hundred other huge men, lifting with pairs of tongs How comes I that men are pleased man machines. I could find only

It was. the rising of another obnoxious weapons of war, one of which are huge pirees of blazing metal from the to be shut up during their working one German riding machine.

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.

weird unlikely to have caused it to be damnable political creed,

Let me say immediately that the skilfully to the ground in the right Pleased to be dressed in

place

tion to their eyes and ears, doing especial beneflt. But the quality, of To overcome this danger Larport I give of my visit to these ce so that they could be moved head-dreas designed to give protec- selected as a bad specimen for our ·

works is a wholly favourable one, on to the next operation.

And here and there were men nothing else all the time but spraying the materials of which it la-made is that the cannot conceive of any munitions using along these same pieces of vast quantities of thy pieces of hard so poor that it has broke down high-grade steel with their feet. steal-under great pressure-on to several times. It is not comparable terms of settlement ought to be

Their hoot are made of spectat, the side 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 oc-

LL steel coming. into thego clothing. tuo. The first is that nothing should

against Bre.

process of manufacture?

works is first electrically be done to prevent Germany

There are plenty of people willing drilled for a sample. This is sent to from taking her proper place as

THERE are, of course, exclu- to take on that oberen though 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 in permitted to go what may appear to others to be from that sample. It is numbered: and followed through to the finished. --and if by chance you did get in great Inconveniences, you would not get out again.

If, for instance, you want to com- job.

Do not imagine, howaver; 'that there Mony

are municate with one of these men, a of these buildings strangely camouflaged, It in 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 its

ERROL FLYNN DODGE CITY

OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND

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ANN SHERIDAN 1000's

ALL IN TECHNICOLOR

BRUCE CABOT FRANK M÷HUGH + ALAN RALE JOHN LITEL-HENRY TRAVERS »VICTOR JÓNY

Bradbury proposes

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 Bys tem 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- ment terms is somewhat pre- mature. The first thing to be. done is to win the war. It is not wise to count our chickons, wanna dan ada kalacakul before they are hatched

Showing TO-MORROW.

KING'S

James Agate picked this out

When, looking on the present

Jace of things,

I

hee one Man, of men the

meanest too;

Raised up to say the world,

to do, unde,

With mighty nations for his

underlings,

The great events, with which

old story rings

Seem vatn and hollow; I And

sothing great;

Nothing left which I en

venerate;

So that almot a doubt within

me springs

Of Providence, such emptiness

at length

Scema at the heart of all things.

But, greal God!

I measure back the steps which

I have trod;

And tremble, reving, whance

proceeds the strength", N Of such poor Instruments, with

thoughts sublime

I tremble at the sorrow of the.

SO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH..

provides protection cumulations of muck acquired in the Ꭺ

the ald, Water courses which might will have to hit the sides of his fort- own problems.

problems problems or skilled

have reflected the moon by night ress with something like a sledge have been hidden by cunning devices. hammer-and if you hit hard enough

IN

he will just hear a gentle tap.

Maybe sandblasters are born, not one place you will findi men working in completej male. safely making those saintl bullets for the 103 rifle. Small things these bullets are-but_beautifully fabricat-

labour, and there la an urgent need that women should be allowed - fo come into the factories and partici pate in this work, and

d

Some men have been reluctant to TREMENDOUSLY Interesting, agree, but to-day the problems is

100.

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

these works you will find number tion-

There is, on all sides, complete The method is simple-not unlike of huge guns lying on the grass. those child-time puzzles in which you They look as it they are being un- evidence that all are willing to make shake the contents of one box. into cured for.. Not at all. They are sacrifices. for, the common pet another in exactly the required pot covered with rust-resisting point, Mr. Lesile Burgin, the Mitral

DAARVAN and their insides are full of grease Supply, and his "staff ? bre While millions of small bullets are the enda being protected by wooden night and day, for it is réalised mass-produceti every day, every one blocka

i at all costs the men at the front sit of them has to be carefully examined. A sixteen-lach gun, for, the British be apported,

tion.

by the human eye, for foullaghan Navy weighs an endrings Loonage - The tren ma of thron

• Thom that have the slightest defeet) and thrown saleu

weighing many wives and children of th

are instantly rejected. After their hundredweights, for a vera til med men, can, in my vlaw kay sek assembly, those bullets come into the Its ltalia probabis on hired confidence that thir hands of thego checkers AR KONCAM Arounde