WORKERS AND MUNITIONS
NATIONAL SHELL FACTORY. BIRMINGHAM SELECTED AS SITE. LONDON, June 20. It has been decided to establish a national shell factory at Birmingham. AMERICAN MUNITIONS. AGENT TO BE SENT. LONDON, June 20. Mr Lloyd George has appointed Mr D. A. Thomas, a coal-owner, to go to America and Canada to organise munitions contracts. GERMAN PURCHASES. ORDERS STILL BEING SENT. NEW YOitK, Jane 20. The New York Herald states that German agents have been buying 12 per cent, of the ammunition manufactured at Hartford, 15 per cent, of the Bridgeport output, and 10 per cent, of the Waterbury output.
It is presumed that somehow these purchases are reaching their destination a 6 the agents continue to order more. The first shipmenti was sent to South .America and thence tvia Holland and Denmark. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16416, 22 June 1915, Page 5
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