BRITAIN'S PART.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15301, 14 June 1915, Page 7

BRITAIN'S PART.

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MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S POWERFUL SPEECH. ORGANISING SHELL FACTORIES. RECRUITING WORKSHOPS AND LATHES. LONDON June 11. Mr Lloyd George, addressing the Welsh Munitions Conference at Cardiff, urged the recruiting of every laths and every workshop to turn out fhells. He said that Great Britain having entered on the war could not go back without losing its name on the map of tho world as a Great Power. LONDON, June 12. Mr Lloyd George emphasised that no wanted two or three war factories in South Wales, whoso patriotism had alleaiiy been shown by Glamorganshire's 6?,300 recruits.and Monmouthshire's 18,663. His appeal was not for more men, but for support for those at tho ,'Tont. Too many valleys iv South Wales had become valleys of shadows. "'We are sending more men/ said Mr Lloyd George; "we want them not merely to win a victory for us, wo want them to return and rejoice v.-ith its over the victory which their valour will have captured. Do let us give them a fair chance for a fair fight." Continuir.g, Mr Lloyd George said South Wales might adopt Yorkshire's plan of establishing two or more national shell factories in each area, requisitioning the machinery for fiiem from other workshops in the district, or Lancashire's plan of utilising the existing workshops with additional machinery, each shop producing all the shells it can. Alternatively, both methods might be combined. Central National Arsenals being created and provided with machinery which they might either take voluntarily or under the Defence of the Realm Act from other works, while privata shops undertook the production of complete shells, or incomplete- shells for completion in the National arsenals. He favoured the latter plan. Everybody must con-

tribute to this undertaking. Ho promised that no manufacturers who iooi* up the work of shell-making should suffer by the competition of unpatriotic rivals* who did i.o shell-making. "1 am asking you," said Mr Lloyd George, "to plant tho flag on your workshops and convert your lathes and machinery into battalions which will drive the*foe in disgrace from tho lands he has tortured ami trampled on, and liberty will be again enthroned.''