WAR MUNITIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 5

WAR MUNITIONS

AUSTRALIAN MECHANICS FOR . . ; ENGLAND; . By Telesraph-Press Aseociation-Copyriglit - Sydney, September 2. Fifty engineers sail for England 'as munition workers by the Maloja-. ; > . FEDERAL MUNITIONS COMMITTEE. Sydney, September 2. The Federal Munitions Committee's Inspector has passed 125 tons of steel for sliell-making manufactured at the Waratah works. WORKERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA. ■ . (Rec. September 3, 0.50 a.m.)' . Cape Town, September 2. One hundred and fifty-six experienced munition workers ate paying or working their passages to England; ■ ' ITALY'S WAR SUPPLIES. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun'; Services.) /' London, September 1. ■■ "The Times" correspondent at Rome states, that adecree has been promulgated Regulating .the production ; of ammunition by private factories working for the State, and placing workmen, whether military or civilians," on an equality, with liberty to apply to tho authorities- to settle a. dispute. They will not be allowed to interrupt work. The regulations provide for the centralising of productions in /seven '. areas under_ military direction, and tlie empowering of the Governments to com-, mandeer all arms establishments. ' / \ ■ " • ' '■■■:•■ THREAT TO AUSTRIAN SUB'JECTS ABROAD. Amsterdam, September 1. The Austro-Huii2avian Government announces -that all subjects working in neutral countrios, particularly in • America,; employed in factories producing war material for tlio Allies, are liable to ton to twenty years' penal servitude or to. capital punishment.