100 NEW INDUSTRIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 7, 23 September 1942, Page 5

100 NEW INDUSTRIES

HAVE BEEN SET UP BY RE- , , FUGEES IN BRITAIN

Nearly 30,000 British, worltpeople are now on war production in the 300 factories set up in Britain by reiugees irom Nazi persecution. They are helping to defeat their former oppressors by making glycerine for explosives, textile, and leather

service equipment, optical glass for binoculars and periscopes, diamond cutting tools, electrical equipment, metal alloys, plywood 'and many other manufactures directly used in the war effort. Over one hundred industries entirely new to Britain have been established there by refugees, since Hitler came to power, and valuable processes recorded only in the minds of the inventors are at the same time Germany's loss and. the Allies' gain. Many of the . refugees came over with little but their ideas and designs, all their equipment and most of their capital having been abandoned. But in these cases the U.K. Government, true to a tradition which dates back to the Flemish weavers of the 14tli century, have not only given the exiles asylum but assisted, them with capital, equip ment and premises. Nearly one-third of the new ventures, with a joint capital of 000 to £750,000, are on Government Trading Estates in South Wales, Tyneside and elsewhere, while others are in the industrial centres of London, Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and Scotland.