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Wednesday, HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

February 28, 1940.

Ubrary, Supton

By SOMERSET MAUGHAM

WHEN I went to see Monsieur Dautry to thank him for enabling me to visit the French munition factories, I ventured to ask him whe- ther he thought flesh and blood could stand the long hours of labour, day after day, which he was demanding of the workers.

He anid he was well aware that men could not be expected indefinitely to continue to work with such inten- sity, but in the tragic emergency he felt that he could ask them without hurt to themselves to persevere for a few months; then he added: "For every hundred thousand men Britain sends over a hundred thousand men now at the front can be released to work in my factories. That will give me 800,000 more hours of work a week and that means an hour's work less a day for 800,000 men." Monsieur Dautry is Minis- ter of Armaments. He is not a politician, but an en- gineer and A great OT- ganiser.

It was he who reduced to order the confusion of the French State railways and characteristic. stories are told of his efficiency, his in- defatigability and his deter- mination.

Guns

And Still

More Guns

have been built in ense of air- I could quite understand that the He is a small man, with a raids; and arrangements have workman took pride in, even fell in sallow face and decided fea-been made to remove essential love with, this beautiful instrument, so spruce and clean, that could do parts, should the Germans ad-such delicate and accurate work, tures, a thick head of gray-vance, so that it would take Machines Are arriving from ing hair and an eye of pierc-them the better part of a year one huge hall where last February America with regularity. 1 Baw ing brightness.

to get the factory working there was but one automatie ma- chine and where now there are one again. He gives you an impres-

hundred and fifty. sion of enormous energy; he is untiring and appears able shipped away every night so

The

steel manufactured is

that they would find at best

to do without sleep or rest. only the produce of one day's

He himself made out for me work.

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the

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One thing that struck me was least three hundred women must the pains that are taken to make have been occupied there, but the powerful and yet wonderfully the only indication I could dis-manageable tanks as spick and cover that they felt themselves span as a private car.

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