BRITAIN INEXHAUSTIBLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLV, Issue 13452, 14 May 1918, Page 5

BRITAIN INEXHAUSTIBLE.

'NO SUFFERING CAN DAUNT US.' (Sydney Sun Cables.) London, April '27. In the course of his speech in the House of Commons, on the munition supplies, Mr Winston Churchill (Minister for Munitions) said that since Maylast tho Ministry of Munitions had released over 100,000 men for the army, and had continued' to release them at the rate of over 1000 daily. Mr .Churchill stated that recently less than one-sixth of the total time worked had been lost owing: to disputes, -while this loss had been more than wiped out by the extra time worked at Easter. "Let's end this carping about the attitude of labor," he added, -'regarding the war. We ought to congratulate ourselves on the. loyal heart of the people whose servants we have the honor to be." . Mr Churchill also paid a warm tribute to the work of 750,000 women urunitiou workers, to whom over ninetenths of the whole manufacture of our shells -was- due. "We are now, 1 ' he said, "turning out more aeroplanes per week than during the whole of 1914; more per month than during. 1915; more per quarter than dxiring 1916; and the output in 191S will be several times the output of 1917. The quality of tho -work has, in every respect, improved." He confidently anticipated the primacy ■jf our air service among the Allies, and an increasing superiority over the enemy. Regarding the use of poison gas, Mr Churchill said officers concerned with it' had 1 told him that undoubtedly our gases killed more Germans than the German gasses killed our men, but the German irritant g;ases inflicted more casualties of a comparatively transi- ! ont nature. Our gas-masks were tho J best in the world. We supplied! them i I by the million, not only to our own men, but to the Italians, and had large stores available for the Americans. We were .now producing, guns at the most rapid rate. As far as could bo foreseen we would have sufficient guns in 1918 to fire more than all the ammunition we could manufacture. Mr Churchill said that all the great armies in the later stage of this war Avould ! be fully supplied with guns and shells, but the gunners would be tho limiting factor in the artillery development. Thus there was ground for believing that the German's great capture of guns would not be of so much use to them as some people thought Mr Churchill concluded thus: Look where vou will, you .will not get to the bottom' of the resources of Great Britain. No demand is too sudden to be met; no need too unexpected to be supplied; no strain too prolonged for the patience of our people. No suffering can daunt our hearts." (Cheers.)