MUNITIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14196, 7 June 1916, Page 5

MUNITIONS.

MORE GUNS NEEDED,

BRITAIN'S WAR INDUSTRIES.

London., June 2. Dr. Addison, Under-Secretary f or Munitions, in a speech at Sheffield, said that Verdun showed that more and more shells and guns are required. Sixteen times more heavy shells wer-o being made by unspecialised firms than, were made a. year ago by tho large armament firms and Woolwich

Arsenal

Oar scientists had found formulas

for producing optical glass, which was formerly a German monopoly. Our output now exceeded that before tho war fourteen times.

Mr -Arthur Henderson, President of

tho',Board of Education, in a speech at Leeds, said tha b Mr Lloyd George

(Minister of Munitions) had authorised the statement that we cow stood better than ever regarding munitions, machine-guns, and heavy guns. The fact that the Whitsuntide holidays had been postponed. only' until the end of July spoke volumes.