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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1946, Page 6

I do not believe that large-scale battles at sea in which battleships could any real part are within the bounds of possibility mine future. A shower of atom rockets exploding inside the sea would have an unimaginable effect. It is significant that American atomic scientists, such as Dr. John Simpson, have condemned the coming tests in the Marshall Islands both as disproportionately expensive and as inconclusive. No bomb is -to be exploded with the maximum effect, i.e., inside the. sea itself.—Raymond Blackburn, M.P., m The Times, London. £: « $ * The British automotive industry is aiming at a 50 per cent, increase over pre-war production, Sir William E. Rootes, one of Great Britain’s leading automobile manufacturers, said in an interview in New York. Sir william, chairman of Rootes’ Group, p ne °t England’s largest automobile companies, and chairman of the Supply Council of the united Kingdom, said British cars were coming oft the assembly lines at the rate of between 300 and 400 a week. By spring civilian production would be accelerated to about zuuu cars a week, with ,the 750, 000-a-year mark to be reached in 1947.—New York Herald Tribune. .