1940-02-28 — Page 3

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 28, 1940.

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 said 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 or- ganiser.

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

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a programme to enable me to I think what most struck me in government factories visit factorica to get an impres- those works, employing now hard they make heavy guns and big Grim! And yet so true is it sion of the effort France was on two thousand men, was the making to supply the troops sense of emptiness. In a vast shed with all the material needed.

where work was going on at full blast there was only a handful of men and they seemed to be there merely to supervise the almost human, the strangely, purposeful,

I FIRST visited a sugar fac-activity of the machines which tory almost on the bank of the pressed and cut and carried the Rhine and so near the advanced huge ingots of red hot steel. posts of the onemy that it was

were

well within range of a big sion I got when I visited various IT was a very different impres- machine gun; but, except that the women

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manufacture of armoured cars, in another of shells, in a third of

be tedious to

I saw also a factory which in aeroplane guns; In these and others peace-time

produces woollen which it would goods, and under-linen, but now enumerate, the crowded workers, is busily turning out shirts, the serried rows of machines, gave socks and pull-overs for the one the feeling of an intense, a fierco troops. It is within range of abut regulated animation. not very heavy gun.. I think at

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. to be working under peculiar

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of all

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