AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
NEWCASTLE WORKS INSPECTED. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 19.
In a special Douglas airliner, placed at their disposal, five of the visiting American journalists to-day were flown to Newcastle, where they inspected the steel works, which greatly impressed them. They plied Mr Essington Lewis, Director-General of Munitions, with questions. Mr Gunnison declared that he and his colleagues had had no idea of the efficiency and the extent of Australia’s war preparations, which were greater than any of them had imagined. Mr Lewis told the party that only two per, cent, of the materials needed by the steel works was imported. He also informed them that Australia would soon be manufacturing tanks, and woqld be embarking on shipbuilding on a large scale. The party afterwards flew to the Richmond Aerodrome, and inspected the Air Force station. Then they returned to Sydney.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 9
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