OUR UNPATRIOTIC GOVERNMENT AND THOSE ENGINES FROM AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2380, 9 February 1915, Page 9

OUR UNPATRIOTIC GOVERNMENT AND THOSE ENGINES FROM AMERICA.

Sir,—ln yours of to-day I read that the British Government have entered into contracts with the Bethlehem Steol Corporation worth £10,000.000, taxing the shipbuilding plants to tneir utmost for some time to como; anothor contract is also let for £150,000 for scabbards, and also about a million dollars , besides in orders for revolvers. The Carnegie Steel Company and others.have secured orders for 750.t0ns steel for France, and Studebakers have secured orders for about £3,000,000 value, besides 500 automobile trucks. France and Russia have ordered one million pairs of boots, and also structural steel for. bridgejvork. Now, Sir, -just fancy all tho -energy wasted slating our Government for ordering a paltry matter of ten engines from America when the writers could have reserved all their energies to slate the British Government, France, and Russia for entering into contracts for the above with America. But I think if they will wait patiently there may be a possibility of still further criticising the British Government for commandeering even, the 10 engines we have ordered from England if the war docs not soon ond. —I am, etc., TRUE BRITISH: