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FORSTER-On Thursday, January 4, 1940, at the French Hospital, William Latton Foster, aged 75 years, late Chief Omeer SS. "Chuen Chow." Funeral wi}} pass the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day.

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PEACE

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

"AH, BUT I'M DICTATOR NOW."

GENIE:

ee Ten

Ten

gun's shells

every

German gun

for shells for every German shell

Ten tanks for

every German tank 99

Here's how

we

are making this

slogan come

HAVE just returned from a visit to-some-of- Britain's key armament

true

S. W. ALEXANDER

City Editor of the "Daily Express"

tour of describes a Britain's armament works

shortage unless by some chance the expenditure of shot and shell should beastly greater than anything yet thought of.

IN

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

This involves taking out sixty feel of steel tube and userting a new one.

The gun barrel is lifted up gently by rope which Is nine inches in chr cumference and will carry a weight of 150 tons. It is put end-up into a great pit, where it is heated by gas- of gas formidable arrangement

ย

pipes is involved in this. The old tube is carefully taken out, and whent It gets cold again the new one is put

in.

In all this works the steel used hos 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 factories which still bave inside them thousands of yards of whal wo used to call plano wire. It was there to take the compression as the gun was. stred,

The new steel makes that unneces- Bary. It also makes for simpler co- struction and longer life. ·

As these great guns are trade, or remade, they are taken away, perhaps. disguised as a kind of birthday cake on wheels, and tre lrted out-shelling inlo..vast...mounds_of__cond

factories.

ET me tell you about the maching in these viat

One of the most important is the rining machine. This makes those beautiful grooves in the lube of the gun which cause the shell to rotsie at great speed as it takes its course,

A message I recently received from. America said that the British mun}- tions factories were full of German machines .. suggested that in this matler of munitions-machinery we

Germany has always speelailsed

by the Nazi tyrants, and the Allies make it u 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-centres. ever, it must be admitted that

In those places men, and Germany produces, in her public life at least, a larger number of sometimes women, are working scoundrels per head of the long hours and making a tre- population than perhaps any mendous effort to ensure that other country in

the world.the men at the front shall have So Some such thought may have all the essentials of war ...

Many of them are elderly men with prompted Lord Bradbury to re-that there will be no munitions mark that the German people shortage and no room for fear

still-keen eyes, lining up the bullets have shown themselves prone at the back of the minds of the

by the score examining first tops were away behind the other man. and tails and then sides. The chances of a defective bullet passing out are to allow themselves to be do fighting men that they will be

one great factory I visited thus very small. These folk realise in certain types of small machine minated by leaders who have let down by the folks at home.

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 mun among the thirty work as if their lives depended on it which they do not produce, and Switzerland and America have speel- allsed in yet olber types. In normal bours to other peoples who small arms, bullets, bombs, shells engaged in that particular place was-as indeed they may do.

of Ane specimens own lives. and mighty guns for the Navy and less than six feet in height-grent, desire to live their

ELSEWHERE I saw the mok- times, this division of labour is a dent muscular men, physical fitness.

Ing of

bombs for qur good thing. heavy Therefore no settlement which the Army, little pompoms to

In these big annument works As a mere five-foot-one-and-a-half Royal Air Force.

And here I saw the sandblasters. have looked out especially for Ger merely eliminates a particular with any low-flying aircraft which

may, attempt to attack our vessels specimen I gazed admiringly on these

How comes it that men are pleased man machines. I could find only individual is going to prevent the sea, and a hundred other huge men, lifting with pairs of tongs

on 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 la lle fortresslike buildings? obtained under conditions which are individual or another equally still kept a close secret.

Let me ray 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.

tion to their eyes and ears, doing especial benefit. But the quality of To overcome this danger Lord report I give of my visit to these place so that they could be moved head-dress designed to give protec- selected as a bad specimen for our And here and there were men nothing else nil the time but spraying the materiais of which it is made is Bradbury proposes that the cannot conceive of any munitions pushing along these same pieces of vast quantiles of tiny pieces of hard so poor that it has broken down | high-grade steel with their feet. sted-under great pressure-on to several times. It is not comparable terms of settlement ought to be

Ticlr 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-

LL'icel coming. Info these | clothing, too, provides profection cumulations of muck acquired in the The first is that nothing should

process of manufacture?

works is first electrically against fre

There are plenty of people willing drilled for a ample. This is sent to- THERE are, of course, exclu- to take on that job-even though it the laboratory. The temperature at which it shall be treated is deelded sive places where no un- means working in terrifle noise and authorised person is permitted to go what may appear to othere to be from that sample. It is numbered and followed through to the finished -and if by chance you did get in great Inconveniences,

If, for instance, you want to com- jou, you would not get out again,

Many

are municate with one of these men, o of the buildings strangely camoufluged. 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 hour. You expanding industry always brings ils the atd. Water courses which might will have te-hit the sides of his fort- own problems. have reflected the moon by night ress with something like a sledge- brve been hidden by cunning devices. hammer and if you hit hard enough

he will just hear a gentle tap.

Maybe sandblasters are born,, not

be done to prevent Germany

from taking her proper place us

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 sys- tom of international supervision per- to secure this beyond a 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-i mature. The first thing to be done is to win the war. It is not wise to count our chickens before they are hatched.

works is a wholly favourable one.

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 away the world,

to do, undo, With mighty nations for his

underlings.

The great events with which

old story rings

Scem vain and hollow; 1 find

-nothing preat:

Nothing left which I can

venerate:

So that almot a doubt within

me springs

Of Providence, such emptiness,

at length

Seems at the heart of all things.

But, great God!

I measure back the steps which

I have trod;

++

And tremble, arcing whence

proceeds the strength

Of such poor Instruments, with

thoughts sublime::

I tremble at the sorrow of the

time.

WILLIAM Wordswortil..

on to the next operation.

IN

one place you will findi men working in complete made. safely making these small bullets for the 303 rifle, Small things these bullets are-but beautifully fabricat-

ilon.

AL

Do not Imagine, however, that there

There

skilled

are problems of labour, and there is an urgent need that women should be allowed lo come into the factories and partiel- pate in this work.

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

ton, 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 fuellities and accommoda-

at together.

these works you will find n number tion,

There is, on alt aides, complete The method in simple-not unlike of huge uns lying on the grass. those child-time puzzles in which you They look as if they are being un- evidence that all are willing to make

Not at all. They are sacrifices for the common good. shake the contents of ono box into cared for.

Mr. Leslie Burgin, the Minister of another in exactly the required posi- covered, with rust-realating paint,

and titer insides are full of grease Supply, and hip staff are Working While millions of small ballets are the ends being protected by wooden night and day, for it is conlised that nt all costs the men at the front must mass-produced every day, every one blocks 1. of them has to be carefully examined, A sixteen-inch gun for the British be supported... by the human eye, for faults.

Navy weighs an enormous tonnage Those that have the slightest defect and throws a shell weighing many Are Instantly rejected. After their hundredweights for a great distance assembly, these bullets came into the Its life is probably only a few hundred hands of these checkers,'

rounds,

The great mass of the public, the wives and children of the front lino men, con, in my view, have complete confidence that this purpose will be.. achieved..