BRITAIN INEXHAUSTIBLE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 112, 15 May 1918, Page 4

BRITAIN INEXHAUSTIBLE

PATIENCE OF THE. PEOPLE.

| LONDON. April 28. j In the course of his speech in the 'House j |of Commons, on the munition supplies, j 5 (Mr. Winston Churchill, (Minister for j f Munitions, said that cilice May last ' the Ministry <.•! Munitions had released over 100,000 men for the army, and had continued to releas? them at the rate of over 1000 daily. Mr. Churchill stated, that recently less than one-sixth of the total time had been lost owing to disputes, while j this loss had been more than wiped out j by the extra time worked at Easter. "Let us end this carping about the ' attitude of labour," he added, "regard- j ing the war. We ought to congratul- j ate ourselves on the loyal heart of the . people whose servants we liave the j honour to be." iMr. Churchill also paid a. warm tri- j bute to the work of 750,000 women j munition workers, to whom o\er nine- j tenths of the whole manufacture of our ; j shells was due. _ "• I "We are now," li© said, turning i out more aeroplanes per week than during the whole of 1914; more per month i than during 1915: more per quarter | than during 1916; and the output m ! 1918 will be several tiries the output of i igi7. The quality of the work lias, in [every respect, improved." He confidently anticipated the primacy of oui air service among the allies, and an increasing superiority over the enemy. Regarding the us e of poison gas, Mr ■Churchill said officers concerned with it had told him that, undoubtedly our killed more Germans than the 1 German jra*e« killed pur men, but the ! German uritan f gases inflicted more j catua'.t-.e* of a comparatively transient | i aline 0-.r gas-masks were the best S ii. tie wcrli. We supplied them by i foa iiiiViioi!, not only to oi.- own men, ' but to the. Italians. and had large stores avoi'ahle for the Americans. | W.j wer.j now producing >uu-s at t.ie ! moil raj>id rate. As far i oiild be I forefeet/ w ; would have sufli.-i ?nt gins {in 1918 ti fire more than al. the «-.m- ---) w t , could manufacture. I Mr Cln rehill said that «ul me five.-.t janiue; in the later stage_ of f*.is war i wou'.d be iully supplied with ut .ir,s :;i.d i shells, but the gunners would be the 5 limTting faetor in the artillery develop- \ ment. Thus there was ground for beI lieving that the Germans' great capi ture of guns would not he of so much | Use to them as some people thought. * Mr Churchill concluded thus: "Look S whSfe you will, you will not get to ] the bottom of the resources of Great ( Britain. No demand is too sudden to Ibe met; no need too unexpected to be ! supplied j do strain too prolonged for the pauence of our peple. No sufferings can daunt our hearts." (Cheers.)