CANADA'S WAR EFFORT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 217, 13 August 1942, Page 5

CANADA'S WAR EFFORT

(Rcc. 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 12. The construction of fighting vessels and the production of all classes of war materials and equipment in Canada had been immense in its recent development .according to details given in. London by the Canadian Deputy-Minister of Munitions Supply (Mr Shields). One 10,000-ton cargo vessel was now being launched every three or four days. More than 80 keels had been laid and more than 40 ships launched and a large number had already been delivered. Canada was also sullying many aircraft for the Empire" Training Plan. Fighting aircraft would come into production in the near future and training and service planes would be exported to Britain and the United States. Automobile equipment was also being produced on such a large scale that the vehicles were serving on all fronts and hundreds of Canadian tanks had gone to Russia. The production of ordnance included anti-aircraft guns, naval gun mountings, rifles, ma-chine-guns, mortars, shells, small arms ammunition, fuses, and much ammunition filled with explosives before going overseas. Tho whole munitions industry exceeded the prewar iron and steel industry and new mines and mineral deposits had been developed to provide raw materials. It is officially stated in Ottawa that the number of men called up by the end of July exceeds the total number conscripted for the last war by 15,000. Of the 140,000 called up 40 per cent, have signified their willingness to serve overseas. —Official Wireless.