"MADE IN AUSTRALIA"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 10

"MADE IN AUSTRALIA"

WAR SUPPLIES

MUNITIONS AND MATERIALS

(British Official Wireless.) v RUGBY, June 8.

Details are now available of the extent to which the war effort of Australia is being increased by expansion of the production of munitions and other war material. British destroyers are using depth charges made in Australian factories, and Australian bombs will soon be dropped* on German targets as a result of/ enlargement of the factories in, Victoria. Rifles, sgiall arms' ammunition, and machine-guns made in Australia are being used by the Australian Imperial Force in Palestine, by the forces of India, New Zealand,* and the colonies, .and by services fighting in Europe.

There are four Government-owned arms factories in Australia, and before the end of the year one of them will be producing Bren guns. The Commonwealth also produces anti-aircraft guns, armoured cars, military vehicles, rifles, machine-guns, and every type of air bomb. Apart from the arms munitions production, Australia is proceeding with a national war savings campaign aiming to reach £10,000,000 by the end of June.