IMMENSE FILLIP

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3

IMMENSE FILLIP

CANADIAN WAR PLANT SHIPS, TANKS AND PLANES SUPPLIES TO ALL FRONTS (British Official Wireless.) (10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug 12. The construction of fighting vessels and the production of all classes of war materials and equipment in Canada had an immense recent development, according to details given -ii London by the Canadian deputy Minister of Munitions and‘Supply, Mr. Shields. Ten thousand-ton cargo vessels are now being launched every three or four days. More than 80 keels have been laid and more than 40 ships launched. A large number have been already delivered. Canada was also supplying many aircraft for the Empire training plan. Fighting aircraft will come into production in the near future and training and service planes will be exported to Britain and the United States. Automobile equipment is also produced on such a large scale that vehicles are serving on all fronts and hundreds of Canadian tanks have gone to Russia. The production of ordnance includes anti-aircraft guns, naval gun mountings; rifles, machine-guns mortars, shells, small arms ammunition, fuses and much ammunition filled with explosives before going overseas. The v/hole munitions industry exceeds the pre-war iron and steel industry and new mines and mineral deposits have been developed to provide raw materials.