A GREAT WAR FEAT.

Evening Star, Issue 16779, 6 July 1918, Page 9

A GREAT WAR FEAT.

1 BRITAIN'S COLOSSAL OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS. MR CHURCHILL'S STORY. Mr Churchill's sense- of the dramatic and |)ictu.rcc;([ue lifted his -speech in introducing the munitions vote hiith out of tlie region of a, more recital of astounding facts and figures, writes the parliamentary ropr-esetitative of the ' K:;press.' 11<; describes tint hupres. ion his own surrey has made on himself in a. plowing passage: "It is an impression which m'ows into an unshakable conviction. A;; the war advances, ars the dangers aanl dihr uities gather, and as the sicrai rises in seemingly quenchless violence, one derives ilie intense conviction of the mass'ivo stieuglh, the mara-ivo solidity, a.ud inexhaustible resources of this trre-at ivtion. of this wonderful island, hiClhi-L' for its life .and (-he lifo of tho work!. As!.; what you please and look -when' you v.il.!, you w.l! not ;, r i i to the bottom of the re-source* of Britain. No demand is too unexpected to he. ■ met and supplied ; no strain is 100 prolong i for the patience of our people. No .-ail'toriag or perils daunt her. '

1.000 lost r;u:vs. Tho Minister him-olf die' not fhrink from facing facte. Ik: be-all by veritlni; tho heavy josso-s in the present battles P j Franco : —■ s " Wo have lost vrrv nearly 1.000 rum--h\ li il in i 1 tun i i oro0 r oil ] S °' l ) in i ic f, li 1 - n i|U IU c f i'i nmi turn lot hi dunn sri c i) 11 i! 11 tii uu nj niou iti to s 'iid'uijj Ij til "1 OUI 11 lit I'ljJ OLtjllll li out. wtk m<l tliuo \ci k- Othu lui is I \ u inittii il hue ft n 'osf oi u <.<! up in fit \ul t\ > ' l in J i a. *• 1 J 'o lo urn Ic fo llu'p hj s <?i fn on pu tut iicds, md to ut' , ii t l [i _1 111' lit Of <\p 1 tilll )lf<luil<lll 'lis 1" f|' llLfl I I CI c 1 I C f() t f 31 t 'l J IIOUCMI to t t til t hi lllP PI 1 oi ] «■' iit 1 th In c> In leo i n i o d i' ' 111 11 -ll\ s fll K til II 1) I<l e Ol <] Jo (' L\ I '(> I ILll ' IOH 111 <ll ( jril SI >1 C I< II (of r ] llt 1 ill \ei ( ibbio \ t i ci i \m\ tl i•> ibn t lutt' 1 n A id I \ in I in U) ! I 'tot, Cljl i It n 1 tn 1 !., = 'ni n ni i ' t illfoi n - i A ll ib i ' it (,n riii-- I i ' i in I tit d mi n \\ n fli in in, i il i i r ii\ ii 1 b '' t I li i\( ti (ii i n 1 IJiit i , oso\ j T till < n (1 tut 1i r li id th i 1 n i Imi (up

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i whose servants we have the honor to be." ! (Cheers.) | Mr Churchill c pok.> of the transforma-

tion of industry, of the "factories planned 'by 111. 1 foresight and vLiou of the first I Minister of Munitions, which were now | roar; 11.2; away at full blast throughout the i country, and whose revitalising influence would be felt loner after the war." ll*

second typlanat'on ot his conjuring tnok was the women : " Neasly 750.00 C women a r o now actively emploved in munition work. .More than nine-tenths of ♦.he whole manufacture of shells, and in rnanv branches much more, than nine-tenths of the shells which form the foundation id the power and terror cf the Biitish artiihry, is duo to the la nor of women, and of .vomen who before the war had never turned a lathe." (Cheers.) "Che cost of manufacture has cone down ; the quality of work has cone up. Mr Churchill d-ai: with special features of development, last year: Aeroplanes: More than twice as many piodueed as in any ?c.ar before. Wo now make in a week more than were made in all 1914. in a month more Hum in a-'! 191.5, and in a qua! tor more than in all I.'IG. The quality has been improved, and ih-e variety of tyrn-s reduced to one-third of what they were la-t An mist. The expansion is only just beginning. Wv ma" look forward this year not only to the primacy in aircraft among; the Allies, but, to an increased a-'eemlaney moving forward to at. unmistakable supremacy over the •n.rniv. We owe this to the work of Sir William Weir.

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