PLANT SEIZED
Munitions Output (Rec. 3.20 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 3. The Americans seized a vast German plant in Lorraine, where a wide range of guns was produced, also steel shellcases for 88's at the rate of 150,000 a month, states the correspondent of the Associated Press. The plant covered 10 acres, and was equipped with modern machinery, including some made in the United States. An old Frenchman said the buildings were started when the Germans werq restoring French industry under the terms of the Versailles reparations. The economic crisis intervened, and the Germans returned in 1940 with complete blueprints, and took up the work where they left off. The plant reached peak production in 1943, and was going full blast when the Americans arrived.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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124PLANT SEIZED Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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