CANADA AT WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24000, 25 June 1941, Page 8

CANADA AT WAR

men and munitions I Striking facts and figures showing I the great effort being made by Canada in the war were given at the Royal Empire Society's monthly luncheon yesterday by Mr. W. F. Hull, Canadian , Trade Commissioner. The Canadian j Arniv. he said, now had 250.000 men |in uniform, of whom 70.000 were in i the United Kingdom. A third infantry I division was to go overseas this year, jas well as a tank brigade and an ' armoured cor] is. | At the outbreak of the war the j Canadian Navy consisted of 15 ships I with 1771 officers and men, but it now j included over 200 vessels with a per--1 sonnel of 17.500. By this time next j year it would have 413 vessels and 27,000 officers and men. Jn the execn- | tion of a very large shipbuilding programme tlie employees in shipyards had | been increased from 1500 to over ! 20,000. Some 206 ships had been ordered i and a large proportion of these had i been completed and delivered. Orders Iliad been placed for 116 freighters of the 9300-ton class. Canadian motor vehicle factories had j been very busily engaged on war | orders, with the result that out of i lft(),000 transport vehicles ordered 100.000 had already been delivered. \rho rate of production was over -100 \\ehicles a day. and the greater part ot\ General W swell's army rolled across LiVbva on Canadian-built vehicles.